School Quotes


Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
 
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Mark Twain

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert Einstein

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.
Lenny Bruce
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln

I've never let my school interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
Theodore Roosevelt

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
Mark Twain

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald Reagan

I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms.
Lady Gaga

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

Shirley Jones

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
Albert Ellis

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
Vince Lombardi

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.
Gracie Allen

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
Yogi Berra

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.
Tina Fey

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
H. L. Mencken

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry Ford

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
George Santayana

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
Erma Bombeck

I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.
Woody Allen

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats
 
A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler

In the rainy season, sometimes to get to the first lesson we had to run really quick, because we had to cross the river to school and we'd have to go up and down the bank to find a place to cross because there is no bridge.
Haile Gebrselassie

One of my sensory problems was hearing sensitivity, where certain loud noises, such as a school bell, hurt my ears. It sounded like a dentist drill going through my ears.
Temple Grandin

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

Heinrich Heine