Quotes of: School-kids Keyword

Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?

Garry Trudeau

I did movie star impressions as a kid in high school. Somehow they just got out of hand.

Don Adams

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

Diablo Cody

I go on and off home-school and regular school, but the kids don't treat me any differently because they've all known me forever.

Yara Shahidi

'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.

Jeff Hawkins

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they mak...

Alice Eve

I absolutely hated high school. As a freshman, I was 5 feet tall and weighed 95 pounds... When I got to high school, I had no social skills. Was I a nerd? More of a dork. Definitely not one of the popular kids.

Grant Show

I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

Hilary Duff

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.

James Patterson

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

Jill Scott

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for ...

Joe Davis

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

Ricardo Semler

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

Marcia Gay Harden

If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs.

Sonia Sotomayor

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

Condola Rashad

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

Christian Slater

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Dolly Parton

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

Dan Savage

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.

Andrea Mitchell

We were just a bunch of high school kids who got into the Ramones together.

Santiago Durango

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

Albert Brooks