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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.

I realized that I wanted a Rhodes Scholarship, not because I wanted to go to graduate school but because I wanted to win a famous award. Quitting forced me to realize I was on the wrong track and that I...

Quotes by Rachel Simmons

And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And it was hard at the time, but anything that's difficult you learn from, don't you?

Quotes by Rachel True

I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.

Quotes by Rachel Platten

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

Quotes by Rachel Platten

I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

Quotes by Rachel Dratch

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

Quotes by Rachel Dratch

Having kids in school feels stressful for me.

Quotes by Rachel Hollis

I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

Quotes by Rachel Hunter

As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be...

Quotes by Rachel Hurd-Wood

I teach kids to read on a Saturday for this charity called Real Action. It's a voluntary school because lots of the kids around my area of London are from immigrant families and need extra help with reading.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

She was just Ma, and I didn't grow up in some kind of acting dynasty: Orson Welles didn't come round and give me a piggyback; Vivien Leigh never read me a bedtime story. It was just my mum and our...

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

I was raised to please people in authority, and I'd also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

I was not one of those children hanging on Ma's coat-tails following her round sets. I'd go to the theatre after school if she was working, but I didn't even know what an agent was.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in Scotland, and when I went to boarding school, I'd either be there or Scotland.

Quotes by Rachael Stirling

I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

Quotes by Rachel Bilson

I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.

Quotes by Rachel Bloom

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

Quotes by Rachel Brosnahan

I get up with the kids, get them ready for school and make everyone breakfast. Breakfast during the week consists of some sort of cooked grain with dried fruit, nuts and almond milk; I'm a fanatic about the kids eating...

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

Indeed the Obamas, the Clintons, and many other elites who oppose school choice and make it harder for charter schools to operate, send their own children to private institutions that cost more than many Hispanic families make in a year.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.

Quotes by Rachel Cusk

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.