Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Boaz

American [public] schools are failing because they are organized according to a bureaucratic, monopolistic model; their organizing principle is basically the same as that of a socialist economy.

David Boaz

Maybe that's because guns are sold at a profit, while schools are provided by the government.

David Berkowitz

Effective education is not adding a program or a set of programs to a school. Rather, it is a transformation of the culture and life of the school.

David Boreanaz

I was always one who was clowning around in school and getting in trouble.

David Bolinsky

I learned how to do stop-frame animation and I experimented with that a lot, and pretty much that was my mode of animating through high school.

David Bowie

I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.

David Bowie

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

David Berg

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

David Beckham

Maths is totally done differently to what I was teached when I was at school.

Davey Havok

When I was sent to public school, I was relieved that I could wear what I wanted to wear.

Dave Winfield

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

David A. Bednar

All of us now are serving and will continue to serve as lifelong missionaries. We are missionaries every day in our families, in our schools, in our places of employment, and in our communities. Regardless of our age, experience, or station in life, we are all missionaries.

Dave Grohl

A long time ago, I made a promise to myself: "Okay, you know what? I'm going to play music, and hopefully I'll make enough money that I can go back to school. Once I make enough money to put myself through school, that's what I'm going to do."

Dave Grohl

I mean, I never liked being told what to do. It's one of the reasons I dropped out of school. Give me something to assemble, I won't look at the directions, I'll try to figure it out by myself. It's why I love Ikea furniture.

David Wright

People only rooted for the underdog in movies, not in middle school.

David Oyelowo

I was sometimes called 'coconut' when I was at school.

Dav Pilkey

Try to remember that being unsuccessful in school doesn't automatically mean you'll be unsuccessful in life. Lots of people who didn't excel in school still went on to have successful lives.

Darius Rucker

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.

Darius Rucker

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did.

Danny Bonaduce

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Daniel Alarcon

When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated.

Danica Patrick

The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.

Danica McKellar

I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.

Dakota Fanning

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

Condola Rashad

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

Condoleezza Rice

When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great.

David Bowie

I'm responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Aaliyah

I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me.

Billy Graham

The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons are taught; and a kind of church where God is honored; a place where wholesome recreation and simple pleasures are enjoyed.

Bill Kreutzmann

I went to prep school for one year in Arizona. It was called Orme.

Brian Krzanich

I know how tough engineering school can really be, but it's worth it.

Brian Krzanich

I don't know marketing... clearly in engineering school you don't get much marketing training.

Abhishek Bachchan

I think every school in the world should have a sports program.