Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Savage

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

Dan Rather

And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

Dan Gable

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Dan Fogelberg

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

Daphne Zuniga

When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

Daphne Oz

I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

Daphne Oz

Having been to culinary school, the single greatest asset I learned there was how to cut and chop properly. It's an investment of money that will save you hours of time down the road, and hopefully some cut fingers.

Daniela Bobadilla

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

Daniela Bobadilla

I taught high school students Spanish.

Daniela Hantuchova

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

Danielle Panabaker

I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to wear really big glasses. I was the epitome of a nerd.

Danielle Steel

I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria

Daniel Nathans

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Cornelia Funke

I wish I had more time to visit schools.

Cornel West

I just don't want the fear from the right to be used by the [Barack] Obama administration to silence critics. We have to be willing to tell the truth because we're trying to speak about conditions that are being rendered invisible in our prisons and schools in the hood and so forth and so on.

Cornel West

Cincinnati like so many other cities, we know that so many of our schools, when it comes to public schools, are still de facto segregated racially. It has to do with residential segregation. It has to do with James Crow, Jr., which is at work, de facto rather than legally so that some of the integration is taking place among more and more well-to-do.

Common

I've met kids who haven't had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

Conan O'Brien

In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.

Conan O'Brien

The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.

Conan O'Brien

Jeb Bush admitted that he smoked a notable amount of pot in school. He said, 'You would too if your parents had named you 'Jeb.'

Dwight Howard

You go from high school, to the NBA, and you're thrown in the fire.

Colin Mochrie

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

Colin Powell

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

Alessia Cara

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

Serena Williams

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

Stephen Mangan

I was in a lot of school plays, and it became the thing I did.

David D. Burns

There is no standard 'therapeutic process,' since there are so many different schools of therapy.

Douglass North

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.

Al Sharpton

The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.

We had to take off our shoes after school to save wear on the soles.

Anthony Hamilton

It was very important for me to touch on things that haven't changed, like schools. I'm in Cleveland, Ohio. My lady's from Ohio, and the schools are being torn down, and they turned them into high-rise condos.

Afrojack

I'm a producer for fun. I'm not a professional schooled musician or anything.

David Ayer

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.