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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 wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

Quotes by Noma Dumezweni

I tried twice to get into drama school and didn't, so I worked my way up through the fringe.

Quotes by Noma Dumezweni

In school I was pretty fast.

Quotes by Nonito Donaire

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.

Quotes by Noel Redding

I went to a dentist for a toothache, and it turned out his kids were in an acting school. We talked about it, and I decided to enroll at the same school. I was 14. I guess you could say...

Quotes by Nolan Gerard Funk

When I was in high school, I wrote a play that I sent off to a competition that took second place. I got a check for a hundred dollars. I never cashed it, because obviously it was worth way more...

Quotes by Noah Wyle

When my kids were very young, I have seen them crying, as they didn't want to go to school.

Quotes by Nita Ambani

I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

Quotes by Nnamdi Asomugha

In high school, my dream was to go to the NBA. But when recruiting came around, the letters for football compared to basketball were like 25 to one, and my one wasn't from Duke.

Quotes by Nnamdi Asomugha

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

Quotes by Noah Baumbach

I was director of governmental affairs at the Cleveland school district. I served in the administration of Mayor Michael R. White.

Quotes by Nina Turner

When I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.

Quotes by Nipsey Hussle

AdNectar was born out of a class project at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in January of 2008. The founders are all avid social network users and we wanted to see if we could discover the optimal way for...

Quotes by Nir Eyal

I don’t feel I’m in competition with anyone. My sense is of it being like school: I don’t want to beat anyone but I don’t want to get left behind. That’s a great motivator. I like impressing my friends.

Quotes by Nish Kumar

Before I left for Germany, I had gotten accepted to the performing arts high school in New York, which was a big dream of mine. And having to leave that was very sad for me.

Quotes by Nina Arianda

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had...

Quotes by Nina Bawden

Margaret Thatcher was in my year, and our first-year college photograph shows us standing side by side in the back row. We were both grammar school girls on state scholarships.

Quotes by Nina Bawden

I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn't something I spent a lot of time on.

Quotes by Nina Dobrev

I was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, and I came to attend high school in Massachusetts when I was about 15 years old.

Quotes by Nina Garcia

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

Quotes by Nikolaas Tinbergen

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.