School Quotes - Page 33

• The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Rebel, Generations, Public School

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• The school curriculum today, particularly American history, is a shame.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Curriculum, Today, Shame

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• I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Growing Up, Numbers

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• To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, Curriculum, Journalism

  "Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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• My first dunk ever was in middle school. We were playing, me and my church friends, and I dunked it, and I swear I could not sleep that night.

  Jeremy Lin

  Sleep, Night, Church

  "True or false with Lin and Harden". Interview with Pablo S. Torre, www.espn.com. November 28, 2012.

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• I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers, but when I was a freshman in high school I joined youth group, and that's when I started to see radical love; that's when I started to see what Christian community is supposed to look like and what fellowship is supposed to look like.

  Jeremy Lin

  Christian, Sunday, Community

  "Interview: Jeremy Lin on Embracing 'Linsanity' Spotlight, Where God Wants Him to Be". Interview with Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

  Maya Lin

  Crazy, Class, Nerd

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• I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Thinking, Withdrawal

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• My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Dad, Casting

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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  Laura Linney

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

  Laura Linney

  Pain, Character, Emotional

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

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• I used to spend every morning in detention at my old school.

  Jake Lloyd

  Morning, Used, Detention

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• I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

  Ryan Lochte

  Basketball, Sports, Growing Up

  "Ryan Lochte loves his mom, really wants to meet Lil Wayne (Fourth-Place Medal interview)". Interview with Chris Chase, sports.yahoo.com. May 8, 2012.

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• If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

  Charles Morgan

  Years, Law, Three

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• I never rebelled against my parents - I worked hard, I was responsible, and I didn't go to high-school parties.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Party, Parent, Responsible

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• I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

  Alanis Morissette

  Hippie, House, My Best Friend

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• Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

  Courtney Love

  Cheerleading, Cheerleader, Fame

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

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• Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

  George Lucas

  Kids, Past, People

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

  George Lucas

  Summer, College, Thinking

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illustrator when a friend convinced me to learn photography at the University of Southern California. Little did I know it was a school that taught you how to make movies! It had never occurred to me that I'd ever have any interest in filmmaking.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, College

  "The Force". Interview with Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. Jun 29, 2010.

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• I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn't care what kind of movies I made.

  George Lucas

  Powerful, Care, Kind

  "the force". Interview With Katie Lucas, www.seventeen.com. June 29, 2010.

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• I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

  Ludacris

  Luxury, Car, Muscles

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• The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage after the first concert to meet the Beatles in person. I had a huge crush on George Harrison at the time, having inherited my family's passion for skinny musicians, and I was simply awestruck to be meeting the Fab Four in person.

  Lorna Luft

  Careers, Juniors, Junior High

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir".

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• Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Children, Reading, Exercise

  "Michael Morpurgo: We are failing too many boys in the enjoyment of reading" by Michael Morpurgo, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2012.

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• We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

  Joan Lunden

  Lunch, Healthy, Reform

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