Quotes about School

I remember one parent-teacher conference at the lower school, and Barack went, and there were SWAT guys on top of the roof of the school. And Malia was like, 'Dad, really? Really? Do they really have to be up there?' And it's like, yeah, honey, they do.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

My school was 90 percent white, but 90 percent of the kids I played with were black. So I got the best of both worlds. I think that is where my comedy developed.

I was good in science in school and parents thought I would become a school teacher like my mother.

When I was in junior high, I went to a really hippy dippy Quaker school where we called our teachers by their first names and stuff.

Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it—slate not head—clear across.

Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.

Film school was a privilege I could not afford.

I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits.

I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.

Lenina suddenly remembered an occasion when, as a little girl at school, she had woken up in the middle of the night and become aware, for the first time, of the whispering that had haunted all her sleeps.

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.