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School Quotes

On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.

These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

Quotes by Ruth J. Simmons

My friends and I started that motto early in high school - that attitude, that mentality - from way back then: Want to go to Stanford? Why not? Want to play in the NBA? Why not?

Quotes by Russell Westbrook

Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.

Quotes by Russell Wilson

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Quotes by Rutger Hauer

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Quotes by Ruth Ann Minner

What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Quotes by Russell Smith

I was so envious of everyone who went to Sylvia Young Theatre School. I wanted to go, but my dad flat-out refused. He thought I'd become some tapdancing freak without qualifications. And he was right in a way. I'm glad...

Quotes by Russell Tovey

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Quotes by Russell Baker

My father graduated from high school and didn't go to college and still found his way.

Quotes by Russell Hornsby

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Quotes by Rupi Kaur

I attended sports school in Bulgaria just like my parents. I attended class twice a day and trained twice a day.

Quotes by Rusev

I had two or three jobs at the same time just I could afford myself and pay rent and school. Then I had a tryout with WWE, and I got signed right away.

Quotes by Rusev

I enjoy writing personal essays in the way of Charles Lamb because it goes back to the school days when I was good in writing essays.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

I was a bookworm in school, and in those days it was easy to get books. Bigger cities had book shops.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

In high school, I had a much easier time interacting with adults than with my peers.

Quotes by Rumer Willis

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

Quotes by Rupert Everett

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

Quotes by Rupert Friend

I'm entirely uneducated. I went to public school - public in the American sense - a blue-collar, working-class school. I never got a scholarship, I left when I was 15, never did any exams.

Quotes by Rupert Graves

I never went to acting school. I started in the circus, music hall, I was in a group, did kids' bits. I've always had this kind of insecurity being uneducated.

Quotes by Rupert Graves

I've just started school again, and it was a bit strange to start off with; it took me three or four days to get used to it. My friends have been great, they've been treating me normally.

Quotes by Rupert Grint

Frequently Asked Questions

What different kinds of school are reflected in these quotes?
The quotes touch on several types of schooling - being a "late bloomer" in regular high school, attending Sunday school and Bible readings at church starting in first grade, skipping film school entirely, and studying natural sciences at a Swiss Polytechnical School.
Is there a quote about religious or Sunday school?
Yes: "Once I started first grade, I started going to Emmanuel Baptist Church regularly. I went to Sunday school. We had Bible readings and things like that." For more devotional, school-related content, see Prayers.
Is there a quote about not attending film school?
Yes: "I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected," a wry take on skipping formal film education entirely. For more lighthearted content on this theme, see Jokes.
Is there a quote about being a late bloomer in school?
Yes, one reflects on being a "late bloomer" even back in high school, watching everyone else move ahead while feeling behind - a pattern the speaker says also carried into a filmmaking career.
Is there anything here about advanced or scientific study?
Yes, one references studying toward a diploma in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Polytechnical School in Zurich, where early contact with fundamental research began. For lighter, more playful school-themed content, browse Rhymes or Poems.

You can also browse our Poems or Rhymes for younger, more playful school content.