School Life Quotes - Page 3

• The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion.

  John Dewey

  School, Literature, Slave

  John Dewey (1972). “The Early Works, 1882-1898: 1895-1898. Early essays”, p.264, SIU Press

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• I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.

  James Corden

  Stars, School, Boys

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• Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.

  John Knowles

  School, Class, Members

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• I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Nice, School, House

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges, Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  Adriana Lima

  Inspirational, Teenager, Independent

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• Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  School, Self, Boots

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• I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, School, Thinking

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• But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  School, Bangs, Life Is

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• People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

  George Carlin

  Real, School, Simple

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Marriage

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• My family and school life are important to me.

  Anna Chlumsky

  School, Important, My Family

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

  Bill O'Reilly

  School, Army, Boys

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• I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives

  Patricia Heaton

  Mom, Home, School

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• When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

  Jack Miller

  School, Desire, Quality

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• My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

  Simon Newcomb

  Country, Teacher, Father

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

  Michel Legrand

  Mother, Father, Home

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• I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  School, Men, Tough Man

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• I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Cutting

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• Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

  George Andrew Olah

  Latin, Reading, School

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• The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00.

  Chris Isaak

  School, Later In Life, Tickets

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• I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.

  Pauley Perrette

  School, College, Gone

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• When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.

  Emily Watson

  Drama, School, Thinking

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• When I look back, it was a strange period in my life, looking at my childhood and then my teenage years and forming Slayer when I was still 17, not out of high school.

  Dave Lombardo

  Teenage, School, Years

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• The stage was our school, our home, our life.

  Lillian Gish

  Home, School, Stage

  Lillian Gish, Ann Pinchot (1969). “The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me”

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