Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sasha Alexander

My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Sarah Sutton

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

Sarah Vowell

Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?

Sarah Miles

I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

A lot of times, when you start a show at a young age, you get stuck. You get six years of high school, but I didn't have that.

Zac Posen

I started cooking out of middle school depression.

Youssou N'Dour

I have studied at the school of the world.

Wendelin Van Draanen

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I miss school. What’s wrong with me?

Vladimir Nabokov

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

Young Jeezy

In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.

Wyclef Jean

Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.

Wyclef Jean

I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.

Wyclef Jean

I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.

Wynton Marsalis

As you get older - for example, in our band we have members of our orchestra, like Carlos Enriquez and Ali Jackson and Walter Blanning. I taught them when they were in high school, and now they teach me.I'll regularly call Ali and say, "Man, can you break this rhythm down for me?" Or Carlos was actually our music director in Cuba, and he's been instrumental in a lot of my education, and I started to develop a saying with them, because they tease me all the time - you get older, you have that familiar relationship - I say, "You have to follow your young leadership, too."

Wynton Marsalis

The majority of the high schools and the public schools in N.Y.C. don't even have band programs. Hip-hop in a lot of ways is an outgrowth of a lack of instruments and a desire to play music, so we can't really fault the kids for that.

Wolf Blitzer

Americans are clearly more afraid than at any time since 9/11. In Los Angeles, 650 schoolchildren didn't go to - 650,000 schoolchildren didn't go to school because of an e-mail threat, this two weeks after an attack killed 14 people in San Bernardino.

Wolf Blitzer

My inclination, as an old-school, classically trained journalist, is not to go with a story unless I have it hard. It's not good enough to say something based on rumors that were flying around.

Wolfgang Puck

I left school when I was 14 to work in kitchens.

Willow Smith

I went to school for one year. It was the best experience but the worst experience. The best experience because I was, like, 'Oh, now I know why kids are so depressed.' But it was the worst experience because I was depressed.

William Osler

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

William Penn

Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.

William Penn

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

Yelawolf

You learn how to be an individual quick after 15 schools, man. After the first five or six, you realize you're always gonna be the new kid.

Robert Morley

Show me the man who has enjoyed his schooldays and I will show you a bully and a bore.

Robert Lacey

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

Robert Klein

I'd walk into the school, smell that institutional smell of the tomato soup, peanut butter, disinfectant, and boys room. Pass the lunchroom, see the familiar lunchroom lady with the white dress and net on her hair. At the end of 50 years of distinguished service the Board of Education gives her a bronze net - with her name on it. It stems from the Board of Education rule to keep her hair out of the food.

Robert Kennedy

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

Robert Greene

Mastery is not a function of I.Q. or natural talent or wealthy parents who can send you to the best school, but rather the result of going through a learning process, fueled by the desire to grow and the persistence to push past any obstacles.

Robert B. Laughlin

As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.

Robert Baden-Powell

It is called in our schools 'beastliness', and this is about the best name for it... should it become a habit it quickly destroys both health and spirits; he becomes feeble in body and mind, and often ends in a lunatic asylum.

Robert Barry

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

Rob Paulsen

Work hard in school and listen to your parents. They really do want the very best for you and have been where you're going.