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.
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School Quotes
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No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.
 Herbert Hoover |
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The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers |
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In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint Eastwood |
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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 |
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
Jack Nicholson |
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
Jack Nicholson |
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
Ellen DeGeneres |
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It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum |
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
G. H. Hardy |
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I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.
H. L. Hunt |
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High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.
John Mayer |
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Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
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Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.
Mao Zedong |
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I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
Christina Aguilera |
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His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.”
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
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I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.
Lenny Bruce |
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If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce |
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali |
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While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.
Ray Kroc |
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Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.
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I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry.
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It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
Sophia Loren |
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
Dan Gable |
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Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
Dennis Rodman |
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Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki |
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It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
John Howard |
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My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
Gene Kelly |
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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 |
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I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.
Steve Nash |
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It's a staggering transition for high school students that found they could study five hours a week and make As and Bs.
John Gardner |
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I knew Slash in high school, but not very well. Just knew him as this kid that used to hang out in the hallway. Pretty much looked then the way he does now.
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I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
Garth Brooks |
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Laurie Anderson |
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You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Alan Alda |
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I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
Carmen Electra |
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I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.
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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
James Earl Jones |
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I think both teams are evenly matched, ... Both teams played real well. This is a typical game between the two schools.
James Monroe |
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In terms of other functions, we are making a mistake about insisting on a public school monopoly.
James Q. Wilson |
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I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.
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America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams |
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I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget |
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
Mandy Moore |
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
Mandy Moore |
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Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.
Elizabeth Blackwell |
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford |
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The schools of the country are its future in miniature.
Tehyi Hsieh |
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It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the gall, or the zeal, to call it not a school, or a college, but a university.
Theodore M. Hesburgh |
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At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now, I feel they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.
Jessica Simpson |
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I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
Jet Li |
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I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
Thomas Friedman |
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It's been a long time since I've enjoyed watching a high school football game like this.
Bill Murray |
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“I was a high school basketball player and high jumper, so I thought I could help,”
Bjork |
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It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.
Bo Jackson |
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Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
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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 |
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They wouldn't run away when dogs were attacking them. They literally were hanging around the houses, and around the school, right in the downtown part of the community.
David Suzuki |
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Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.
Vanessa Williams |
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Better build schoolrooms for "the boy,"/ Than cells and gibbets for "the man.
Eliza Cook |
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I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.
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The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
Dorothy Thompson |
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We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.
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I assume they'll be expelled. I mean, I know the school wouldn't ever let an athlete play here if they did something like this, so why would a student be allowed to stay?
Rick James |
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American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.
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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.
Roald Dahl |
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
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I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.
Sanford I. Weill |
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Children can take lessons in that school via the Internet and can score extra points like e.g. in Geography or History. That sounds very promising and is a fantastic basis for future steps.
Anatoly Karpov |
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My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.
Tony Visconti |
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An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
Jonathan Kozol |
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During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael Castle |
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When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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Could life so end, half told; its school so fail?
Soul, soul, there is a sequel to thy tale!
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I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.
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