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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.

School is very important to my family.

Quotes by Paula Creamer

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

Quotes by Paula Danziger

I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my...

Quotes by Paul Walker

I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

Quotes by Paul Wesley

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

Quotes by Paul Westerberg

I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.

Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

Film school is a complete con, because the information is there if you want it.

Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

I remember being taught in school that you would underline things that you liked. I remember just underlining everything as a kid, thinking, 'This has all gotta be important!' I would just underline the whole thing!

Quotes by Paul Thomas Anderson

When I got out of school, I just started doing plays of the off-off-Broadway route, and for many years, that's what I did, slowly doing work in tiny theaters, building relationships with people in the business. It's not a showy...

Quotes by Paul Sparks

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.

Quotes by Paul Taylor

I came to the University of Chicago on the morning of January 2, 1932. I wasn't yet a graduate of high school for another few months. And that was about the low point of the Herbert Hoover/Andrew Mellon phase after...

Quotes by Paul Samuelson

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

Quotes by Paul Schneider

I didn't grow up wanting to be an actor, and I didn't go to acting school.

Quotes by Paul Schneider

We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are.

Quotes by Paul Scott

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

Quotes by Paul Rhys

In eighth grade, I wore a tie to school every day. I didn't own jeans. But it wasn't a granola thing, it was really more of an INXS thing.

Quotes by Paul Rudd

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

Quotes by Paul Muldoon

Poetry is as vital as ever. The teaching of poetry reading, however, is sluggish and, often, slovenly. It needs to be expanded in the school curriculum and be more a feature of society at large. The newspapers should all be...

Quotes by Paul Muldoon

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

Quotes by Paul Nurse

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

Quotes by Paul Nurse

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.