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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
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Princeton was really hard. I had learned how to write well at boarding school, and I knew if I majored in English and I just did the work, I could get B's.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched the news, discussed it all the time.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was driving to school at Reseda High School - I was a junior, and it was early 1956. I had a '49 Ford. I was listening to the country station, and 'Folsom Prison Blues' comes on... It didn't sound like the stuff I was hearing on the pop stations.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in high school in the '50s, all pop music - Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard - was aimed at teenagers. I loved that stuff.
- Learn
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in Catholic iconography. My dad's from Naples and I was brought up in a Roman Catholic school.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the government is going to mandate levels and punish schools for failing, they should send that money to the school system.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father made me take three years of Latin in high school.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.
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- Nov 07, 2020