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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.

When I left drama school, my fear was that I'd get pigeon holed into comic acting and I did so much to counter it that I got stuck in the opposite.

Quotes by Rufus Sewell

I used to write at night. I was teaching school, and I was married, and had to do all the things that one does when one is working and has a family. But I used to write at night.

Quotes by Rudolfo Anaya

I have always loved going to school.

Quotes by Rudolph A. Marcus

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Quotes by Rudolph A. Marcus

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

Quotes by Rudolph A. Marcus

Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.

Quotes by Ruchi Sanghvi

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.

Quotes by Ruben Blades

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Quotes by Ruben Hinojosa

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Quotes by Ruben Hinojosa

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

Quotes by Ruben Hinojosa

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

Quotes by Ruben Studdard

I went to public school, and it shaped me as a musician.

Quotes by Ruben Studdard

It's not who you're going to sit beside at school that matters now: it's what resources will your school have.

Quotes by Ruby Bridges

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what we looked like.

Quotes by Ruby Bridges

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a second look at capital punishment.

Quotes by Ruby Dee

I did pretty good for a guy who never finished high school and used to yodel at square dances.

Quotes by Roy Rogers

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

Quotes by Roy Romer

I was the child at school in second-hand or handmade clothes and, as I grew older, I craved material wealth, a big house and designer clothes.

Quotes by Roz Savage

I think art was the one thing my high school didn't give. And I think that was probably one reason why I was interested in it.

Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

I drew as a child, they tell me. I can vaguely remember doing it. And then I drew again in the late years at high school.

Quotes by Roy Lichtenstein

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.