School quotes

“I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.” Stephen King

“Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.” Stephen King

“I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.” Stephen King

“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.” Stanley Kubrick

“My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.” Paul McCartney

“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.” Steve Martin

“I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.” Steve Martin

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.” Barack Obama

“Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.” Horace Mann

“Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'” Marilyn Manson

“What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.” Marilyn Manson

“We learned about gratitude and humility - that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean... and we were taught to value everyone's contribution and treat everyone with respect.” Michelle Obama

“Even if we give parents all the information they need and we improve school meals and build brand new supermarkets on every corner, none of that matters if when families step into a restaurant, they can't make a healthy choice.” Michelle Obama

“Although the circumstances of our lives may seem very disengaged, with me standing here as the First Lady of the United States of America and you just getting through school, I want you to know we have very much in common. For nothing in my life ever would have predicted that I would be standing here as the first African-American First Lady.” Michelle Obama

“See, that's why Barack's running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly - to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American - and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.” Michelle Obama

“I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.” Dolly Parton

“I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.” Dolly Parton

“My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.” Dolly Parton

“I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.” Colin Powell

“Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.” Colin Powell

“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” Thomas Paine

“Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.” Mitt Romney

“Second, we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend, every parent should have a choice, and every child should have a chance.” Mitt Romney

“What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?” Mitt Romney

“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.” Ronald Reagan

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.” Theodore Roosevelt

“I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.” Henry Rollins

“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.” Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America.” Richard Dawkins