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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.

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I left Egypt in 1969 for graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania. I have been on the faculty at Caltech for 37 years and carried dual citizenship for 31. But my commitment to the country of my birth never...

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.

Quotes by Ahmed Zewail

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In private school, I definitely judged myself against the lighter-skinned girls. I wanted to have different hair. I wanted to fit in. I thought that was more beautiful.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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I went to a school where the girls that were found attractive were the complete opposite to me. I judged my worth on how many boyfriends everyone had, and I wanted to jump out of my skin every second of...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

College Quotes

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I always think, what I would have thought of something like Gurls Talk would have come into my school? Or how would I have felt if I'd heard there was this one-day festival happening in London? I think I'd have...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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I had a hard time in high school.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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I was privileged in terms of where I grew up, and I come from a very loving, supportive household. But when I began to go off the rails at boarding school, my behaviour wasn't a result of an upbringing but...

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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I did a school fashion show, and I got scouted there, but I wasn't very interested in modeling at that point.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

Dost Quotes

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I think, overall, there is a lack of diversity in the arts. I'm thinking about when I was in grad school: I could probably count on one hand the number of minority students in the graduate school program.

Quotes by Adrienne C. Moore

You can also browse our Poems or Rhymes for younger, more playful school content.