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 grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.
I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
It's just become such a business, getting into college. I see that a lot in my friends, their parents were so on top of them about getting into an Ivy League school since they were so young, they were just...
I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.
When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.
Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next...
I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school...
I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system -...
Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could...
I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.
I was scheduled to graduate from high school in 1943, but I was in a course that was supposed to give us four years of high school plus a year of college in our four years. So by the end...
If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not...
