- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Meetings
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went to school board meetings, we went to Little League games, and we did everything to be normal.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a family, we didn't get into the celebrity thing. That's not what we wanted for the boys. We wanted them to play everything they could, be involved in as many school events as they could.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm very proud of high school, college and pro football, the strides have been made to make it a safer game.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name Apollo on it. And I'd walk around with it. People would say, 'Hey, there's that Apollo kid.' That's where the name generated from.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always active as a child. My dad tried to place me in every sport imaginable. I had so much energy, he wanted to push me in a direction where that energy was used appropriately to keep me out of trouble and focused while I was in school.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're going to school, you should do what you enjoy.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to go to a drama school.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether it was with drag or with sports or in school or whatever I was interested in, my parents were always supportive of me.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember wearing a full checkerboard look with checkerboard Vans when I was in elementary school and got bullied so much for it, so it's nice to see it being applauded and enjoyed.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one thing: When I left Notre Dame, when I left every school, what I'm the proudest of is we never compromised the rules, never were on probation, never had any major problems of any kind.
- London
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.
- Appreciate
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know a lot of people fear the rougher types who might be at a state school, but surely it is better to know who they are and how to deal with them than for that kind of child to appear as a completely different species to yours.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an inherent tolerance and kindness in the state school teenagers I know.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020