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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.

Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

Quotes by Nancy Allen

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

Quotes by Nancy Allen

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'

Quotes by Nancy Dubuc

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

Quotes by Nancy Grace

The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever...

Quotes by Nancy A. Collins

It is not just family that must transmit values, but school also.

Quotes by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?

Quotes by Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

My grandmother spent a lot of time with us when we were growing up. She did the school runs and fed us when my mum was busy. To be with her was to really be at home.

Quotes by Nadiya Hussain

In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.

Quotes by Motsi Mabuse

I love being in the present. When I was playing for my school, the only thing I wanted to do was get selected for the under-16 or the under-19 district teams. When I was selected for the district, I would...

Quotes by MS Dhoni

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.

Quotes by Muddy Waters

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

Quotes by Muhammad Ali

No one has the Houdini school of composition.

Quotes by Morton Feldman

I actually came out of drama school and went into two years of working in film and television, which was a happy accident.

Quotes by Morfydd Clark

I was always far more into anything creative that called for a bit of active participation, like reading aloud in class. Then, having left school shortly after my GCSEs, I auditioned for the National Youth Theatre of Wales and the...

Quotes by Morfydd Clark

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Quotes by Morgan Freeman

I try to miss as little school as possible.

Quotes by Morgan Saylor

There are some parts I like about school. I like math a lot, and I like physics.

Quotes by Morgan Saylor

I'm getting more into fashion. I'm surprised that I'm getting into it because I was always wearing goofy stuff in high school.

Quotes by Morgan Saylor

Before I turned 18, I had all these rules. Like, I could only work ten hours a day, and I had to go to school.

Quotes by Morgan Saylor

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.