- 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
- Sports
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up as a swimmer, speaking of sports; I spent a lot of time before school and after school swimming.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went to Test Pilot School, that's when we came to Johnson Space Center. And I ended up seeing John Young and listening to him talk and getting a positive influence from him.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Enloe High School and then East Carolina University and graduated with a business degree in marketing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't excel too highly in school, but I felt that I was moving ahead - and not just in boxing - but in life.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experiments show that children in unsupervised groups are capable of answering questions many years ahead of the material they're learning in school. In fact, they seem to enjoy the absence of adult supervision, and they are very confident of finding the right answer.
- Naughty
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, acting, singing and dancing was what it was all about. That's really what kept me in school because I was really naughty otherwise.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a novel in my early twenties; I won a high school prize - my short story got published, and I got 50 dollars, which was a huge deal.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an adolescent, I went to charm school, where I learned to pour tea and relate to boys, which, as I recall, meant giving them the pickle jar to unscrew, whether it was too hard for me or not.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
The WNBA changed everything. It started in 1997, and I graduated from high school in 1998.
- First One
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- Nov 07, 2020
My high school class was the first one to know, during the college recruiting process, to know there was the option to play professional basketball, to know that the WNBA was there, and to know I better pick a school that is going to help me get to the next level.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was no professional basketball for me in the United States when I was in grade school and middle school. I could look to the Olympics and college basketball, but that was only on TV for the Final Four.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In school, all my teachers and my mum were super routing for me to study at Oxford. I picked music as a career choice, and this didn't sit too well with them!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020