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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.

When I entered the film school at the Prague Academy in the '50s, it was the hardest time in the Communist countries. The ideological control of the society was almost absolute.

Quotes by Milos Forman

Every political party, rotary club, every college, school, all organisations organise running events. This is something that ignites the aspirations of people.

Quotes by Milind Soman

I thought that being popular in school was just so pathetic. I knew I had a future over and beyond the horizon of that school.

Quotes by Milla Jovovich

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

Quotes by Millie Bobby Brown

If I'd been in a school play, I'd probably have sneezed and messed everything up.

Quotes by Millie Bobby Brown

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible...

Quotes by Mildred Dresselhaus

I wish that I had been in 'School of Rock' because, when I was younger, that movie was the movie. It really made me want to be an actor - that's so cheesy. But I remember seeing it when I...

Quotes by Miles Heizer

Going to high school in rural Florida, we always partied down in the woods. Somebody - one of the rednecks - would leave class and mow a path out to a field, and we'd drive out there. Dude, every party...

Quotes by Miles Teller

It is difficult because the school I go to, my friends do not attend.

Quotes by Mila Kunis

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

Quotes by Mila Kunis

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

Quotes by Mila Kunis

I had a normal upbringing and went to public school. If I ever, even for a second, started getting a big head, I was brought back to reality pretty quickly. I was working full time and still had to fight...

Quotes by Mila Kunis

I still think of Heaven as a liberal-arts school.

Quotes by Mike White

In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Quotes by Mike Shinoda

When I was in high school, if my favorite band got too popular, I'd watch carefully.

Quotes by Mike Shinoda

My dad remembers being in school with my uncle, and the teacher would say outright to the class that the Japanese were second-class citizens and shouldn't be trusted.

Quotes by Mike Shinoda

My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork...

Quotes by Mike Vogel

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

Quotes by Mike Wallace

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I...

Quotes by Mike Wallace

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

Quotes by Mike Piazza

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.