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School Quotes

When you look back at your life and remember your school days, you probably would know that those days were the best and the most memorable days of your life. Life gets harder as you grow older but the very essence of the word school brings smile on everyone’s face. Sometimes recalling those early morning classes, inspiring cultural activities, funny tours and parties with the best pals even bring tears in your eyes. Enjoy the beauty of school life through some of the noted school quotes listed below.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

College
Mark Wahlberg
Ana de Armas

When I was 13, I auditioned for the theater school, and I was there for four years. In the meantime, I did my first three movies, all in Cuba.

Movies
Ana de Armas
Dianne Feinstein

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

Education Learning
Dianne Feinstein
Morgan Freeman

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

Music
Morgan Freeman
Damon Wayans, Jr.

I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.

Art
Damon Wayans, Jr.
Alexandra Daddario

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

Kiss
Alexandra Daddario
Patrick Bamford

I did an A/S in economics once I had left school and was in my second year as a scholar at Nottingham Forest. I did that to keep me stimulated.

Economics
Patrick Bamford
Dennis Rodman

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

Dennis Rodman

When I was four or five, I had an older brother who got paralyzed from the neck down in junior high school. Some kid did a wrestling fall on him and hit his spine. We had to take care of him. I went from being the baby to not really being the baby anymore.

Fall
Scottie Pippen
Amanda Holden

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Amanda Holden
Ken Jeong

I went to Duke, which is... a Top Five school. Not community college. But whatever.

College Community
Ken Jeong
Candace Owens

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

Family Money
Candace Owens
Aya Cash

In school I really loved Shakespeare, and I participated in a country-wide Shakespeare competition.

Aya Cash
Jack Quaid

I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.

Comedy
Jack Quaid
Mark Ruffalo

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

Imagination
Mark Ruffalo
Matt Lucas

When I left school I was full of angst, like any teenager, and I channeled it all into comedy.

Comedy
Matt Lucas
Katharine McPhee

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

Katharine McPhee
Peyton Manning

My closest friends are from my high school days.

Peyton Manning
Matt Bomer

Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

Matt Bomer
Kayleigh McEnany

The Democrats have shown little interest in legislating, but unlimited interested in investigating every aspect of President Trump's life. It's a wonder they haven't subpoenaed his elementary school report cards.

Life Wonder
Kayleigh McEnany

Geddy Lee and I went to the same grade school. He moved away when we were still young, but I remember him like I do all my friends from back then. Then in 1982, Dave Thomas and I were approached to do a record as the McKenzie Brothers on Anthem Records, the same label that Rush was on.

Rick Moranis

Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.

Girl
Issa Rae
Olivia Wilde

I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.

Cooking Play
Olivia Wilde
Pedro Pascal

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

Pedro Pascal
Jack White

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Age Parents
Jack White
Dwight Howard

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

Dwight Howard
Ivana Trump

I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill.

Money
Ivana Trump
Halsey

Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

Halsey
Savannah Guthrie

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

Good
Savannah Guthrie
Chris Rock

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history of the school.

History
Chris Rock
Kawhi Leonard

I could have gone to a bigger school. I use it as motivation going to a school that loved me. I wanted to put them on the map and show everyone that you don't need to go to a top school to make it in the NBA.

Kawhi Leonard
Chace Crawford

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

Good Journalism
Chace Crawford
Courtney Love

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
Thomas Paine

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Good Teacher’s Day Practice Purity
Thomas Paine
George Santayana

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

George Santayana
Juice Wrld

Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music.

Music
Juice Wrld

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.

College Communication
Kiara Advani
Minka Kelly

I didn't go to theater school. I didn't go to Julliard. But I've lived a lot. I've seen a lot. I feel like that makes up for a little bit.

Minka Kelly
Owen Wilson

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

Cool
Owen Wilson
Malala Yousafzai

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.

Education Home
Malala Yousafzai
Victor Hugo

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Prison Education
Victor Hugo
Dominique McElligott

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much.

Dominique McElligott
Kristin Kreuk

In high school, I was the biggest procrastinator in the world.

World
Kristin Kreuk
Amber Heard

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

Time
Amber Heard
Michael Keaton

I liked going to Catholic school.

Michael Keaton

As for middle school, I had a really horrible era of style. I'd only play basketball with the boys during lunch, so I went through a phase of only wearing Lakers uniforms to school - that was cute! And then I kind of went through the Puma phase that everyone went through with the sweatsuits, which turned into Juicy Couture sweatsuits.

Cute Style
Gigi Hadid
John David Washington

I'm from the old school; hard work pays off.

Work Hard Work
John David Washington

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

Love
Ben Affleck
Macaulay Culkin

I went to high school, which was a good thing because I hadn't interacted with many people my age, and I didn't really have friends. I had a million acquaintances and no friends.

Good Age People
Macaulay Culkin
Tucker Carlson

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about.

Life Positivity Teachers
Tucker Carlson
Luke Evans

When I left school, I got a job in a shoe shop and I used to save 15 quid a week and pay for my own singing and acting lessons.

Singing Jobs
Luke Evans
Chevy Chase

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Attitude
Chevy Chase
Robert Pattinson

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

Robert Pattinson
Emilia Clarke

Drama school is fundamentally practical. I didn't write any essays, so I came out with a BA honors degree in acting.

Drama Acting
Emilia Clarke
Quentin Tarantino

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'

Movies People
Quentin Tarantino
Roald Dahl

All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.

Life
Roald Dahl
Linda Cardellini

I think everyone feels lost at times during their high school years.

Linda Cardellini
Dolores O'Riordan

My priorities were taking the kids to school and being a mum and being a daughter and being a sister. Just spending a lot of that time with my family that I'd probably lost a lot of, touring with the Cranberries.

Family Time Daughters
Dolores O'Riordan
Elizabeth Olsen

When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

Good Focus
Elizabeth Olsen
Eminem

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

Eminem
Caitlyn Jenner

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

Excitement Work
Caitlyn Jenner
Will Smith

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

Things Learning
Will Smith
Chrissy Teigen

I did not grow up with a spatula in my hand. I didn't even cook that much in high school. I was busy being a teenager and doing everything that goes along with that.

Busy
Chrissy Teigen
Kelly Preston

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

Kelly Preston

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

Ben Affleck
Paul Hollywood

Before I was ever a baker, I was a teacher. Or, at least, that is what I thought I was going to be. After O-levels, I went to art school in Wallasey on the Wirral, and my mate Cavan and I did a teacher training course.

Art Training Teachers
Paul Hollywood
Patrick Bamford

Even though I was sent to private school, it was purely because mum and dad wanted the best for me, and they worked their socks off in order to be able to give me that.

Best
Patrick Bamford
Elizabeth Debicki

My parents were ballet dancers, and I did a lot of ballet, too, so I think I learned quite early on how to hold my body. Although I do recall desperately wishing I was shorter at school.

Body Parents
Elizabeth Debicki

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.

Chris Cornell

I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Art Culture
Bill Paxton

I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.

Scottie Pippen
Dakota Fanning

I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young.

Dakota Fanning
Curtis Jackson

The importance of 'Dream School' is monumental. Helping to inspire these students to reach their potential is personally gratifying.

Possible Dreams
Curtis Jackson
Stellan Skarsgard

I played a heap of snow in a school play. I was under a sheet, and crawled out when spring came. I often say I'll never reach the same artistic level again.

Play
Stellan Skarsgard
Michael Fassbender

We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.

Thinking
Michael Fassbender

I have suffered from bullying in many ways, from bullying in school due to my disability in reading, to digital abuse that I deal with on a daily basis. I'd like to tell the kids that are being bullied that no one should have to deal with the abuse, ever!

Bullying
Bella Thorne
Jack Nicholson

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

Good Parents
Jack Nicholson
Pete Davidson

I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching stand-up. They kept saying I should try it, and so I did.

Home
Pete Davidson
Rachael Leigh Cook

I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

Time
Rachael Leigh Cook
Steve Nash

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.

Life
Steve Nash
Emma Stone

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

Emma Stone
Camila Alves

My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.

Love
Camila Alves
Chris Farley

I went and worked for my dad after school. I'd show up late and stuff like that.

Chris Farley
Vladimir Nabokov

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Talent Literature
Vladimir Nabokov
Charles Lamb

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.

Childhood
Charles Lamb
Keanu Reeves

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

Religion
Keanu Reeves
Albert Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Learning Education
Albert Einstein
John David Washington

I went to private school, but I've got family from North Carolina.

Family
John David Washington
Charlie Sheen

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

Family
Charlie Sheen
Ryan Gosling

I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.

Experience Dancing
Ryan Gosling
Roald Dahl

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Memory
Roald Dahl
Scottie Pippen

I wasn't really that interested in playing. I had gone through some hard times not playing in high school, but my coach had it in his mind that basketball was the way I would get an education.

Education Mind
Scottie Pippen
Jim Parsons

I was very average in the social label scale going through school. I was neither the coolest person in school, nor did I suffer the slings and arrows of being made fun of to such a degree that I couldn't get through the day.

Fun
Jim Parsons
Grimes

I was incredibly unpopular in high school but also extremely notorious.

Grimes
Jonathan Groff

I grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, watching the Tony Awards on TV. Not just 'watching' the Tony Awards on TV - I would record them on a VHS tape and bring them in to school and show them to the other kids.

Jonathan Groff
Malala Yousafzai

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

Education Parents Children
Malala Yousafzai
Alec Baldwin

My father would chaperone at high-school dances, and the toughest guy in the high school used to want to fight my father. My father broke his hand on a guy's head once in school.

Fathers
Alec Baldwin
David Tennant

I've always been a geek and slightly awkward... slightly umm... I was never the cool kid at school.

Cool
David Tennant
Donnie Yen

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

Donnie Yen
Donald Glover

I felt like high school for me was like a big whirlpool of me trying to figure out what was OK for me to do.

Donald Glover