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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 grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.

Quotes by Natalie Babbitt

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Quotes by Natalie du Toit

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

Quotes by Natalie Gulbis

I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

Quotes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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.

Quotes by Nat Wolff

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...

Quotes by Nat Wolff

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

Quotes by Narada Michael Walden

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.

Quotes by Narciso Rodriguez

I am the king of old school romance.

Quotes by Naseeruddin Shah

What drew me into being an actor was that I never got cast in the school plays - and it used to kill me.

Quotes by Naseeruddin Shah

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...

Quotes by Nash Grier

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

Quotes by Naomi Alderman

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

Quotes by Naomi Campbell

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...

Quotes by Naomi Campbell

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 -...

Quotes by Naomi Klein

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...

Quotes by Nancy Roman

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.

Quotes by Nancy Roman

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...

Quotes by Nancy Roman

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

Quotes by Nancy Horan

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...

Quotes by Nancy Marchand

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.