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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 was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

Quotes by Peter Uihlein

I did a play in high school, then one in college. My first professional experience was off-off-Broadway. I'm conveniently blocking the title. I'm sure I was terrible.

Quotes by Peter Riegert

I only went a year to high school. I should have been in high school, but I was in a band, and when you're successful doing that - well, you aren't too likely to go back.

Quotes by Peter Noone

I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.

Quotes by Peter Nygard

Gay adults start as gay kids... Now they've got to figure out how to be with each other and be with family, friends, and the communities at school.

Quotes by Peter Paige

When we went to school, we had the odd tornado drill.

Quotes by Peter Paige

I studied realism when I was in art school.

Quotes by Peter Max

I left school at 16 and skipped university to work, initially as a waiter. I think I missed out on what would have been great years.

Quotes by Peter Mayle

When millions of kids are missing out on school, delivering educational services becomes an issue that concerns the humanitarian system.

Quotes by Peter Maurer

Each day that passes without kids being able to go to school is an enormous burden on the future.

Quotes by Peter Maurer

I passed my Lawn Tennis Association coaching exam, and I persuaded my local club to let me use a court after school and on Saturdays.

Quotes by Peter Jones

My dad was a copywriter on Madison Avenue at the same time as the TV show 'Mad Men' is set. My mom raised the kids and was a scholarship coordinator at a school. More importantly, dad was a writer and...

Quotes by Peter Heller

My recollection of the higher school certificate, which involved a practical exam in physics, was being confronted with an experiment involving a sort of barometer arrangement, wondering why I couldn't make it work.

Quotes by Peter Higgs

One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.

Quotes by Peter Higgs

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

Quotes by Peter Hollingworth

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

Quotes by Peter Hollingworth

When I was a young lad just out of college at the North Carolina School of the Arts, I directed several plays that I wrote. It was essential theater, meaning we had no money, so our set may be six...

Quotes by Peter Hedges

Sometimes I was in school plays, but only when the kid they'd originally picked got sick and they asked me to substitute.

Quotes by Peter Falk

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Quotes by Peter De Vries

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

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.