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Science is the most intimate school of resignation and humility, for it teaches us to bow before the seemingly most insignificant of facts.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.
I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.
I cant justify taking money away from hungry kids and needy schools to pay for the Games when corporations are willing to write the checks.
Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.
My mother cleaned homes and drove school buses, and when my family was on the brink of foreclosure... I started bartending and waitressing.
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.
I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementarys school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
I started writing about New Mexico in an autobiography class I was taking for school, and realized that it was very inspiring place for me.
Every school boy and school girl who has arrived at the age of reflection ought to know something about the history of the art of printing.
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.
They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.
As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
We still talk about [school band]. Almost 40 years later. It's like people are talking about, "Man we need to have a morning band reunion".
Golf is the cruelest game, because eventually it will drag you out in front of the whole school, take your lunch money and slap you around.
If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.
Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn
When I was at school, I was terrible at algebra and arithmetic, but I was always the best at English and literature. And acting, of course.
It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.
I wish I had taken Spanish instead of French in high school. I could eavesdrop on a lot more conversations on the subway if I knew Spanish.
The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.
I kind of realized I couldn't blow the ball by everybody. In high school I could do that, but now it's not going to work. I need to pitch.'
I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.
Sometimes relationships are short, sometimes long, sometimes they're very deep and intense, and drama school is a hell of a learning curve.
Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Village reform is not merely cleaning the roads, constructing schools and worshipping monasteries. It is not mere celebration of festivals.
You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
In fact she was quite bad and according to Jas she was naughty at school, but no one seems to remember that now she is all dead and perfect.
Juggling your personal life, your social life, and your work is hard, especially when you're in school like I am, but I think it's worth it.
I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.
What matters school? We can go to school to-morrow. Whether we have a lesson more or a lesson less, we shall always remain the same donkeys.
Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
And yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever.
Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools.
When I got a little older, I started writing for the high school newspaper, The Maroon Wave, and that's when I fell in love with journalism.
I was awful at science at school, as a subject, because I didn't have the discipline. But, I was awful at music, as well, and I loved music.
I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
I dropped out of high school and I tried to go to community college for a little while. I can't be a student. I always hated that lifestyle.