Quotes of: School-life Keyword

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around t...

Nick Vujicic

I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup c...

Terry Porter

'Big Little Lies' is the story of a school trivia night that goes horrifically wrong, when one parent ends up dead, possibly murdered. I have never attended a school trivia night where a parent ended up dead. In fact, I've never been to a school triv...

Liane Moriarty

My mother talked about the stories I used to spin as a child of three, before I started school. I would tell this story about what school I went to and what uniform I wore and who I talked to at lunchtime and what I ate, and my mother was like, 'This...

Lupita Nyong'o

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums. And ...

Shukla Bose

I wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told m...

Winona LaDuke

My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's r...

Cecily von Ziegesar

When I was in college at Carnegie Mellon, I wanted to be a chemist. So I became one. I worked in a laboratory and went to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh. Then I taught science at a private girls' school. I had three children and wait...

E. L. Konigsburg

When I tell people I work to stop hazing in high schools I am almost always met with shocked expressions. 'High school? Really? I thought that was something that only arrogant frat guys do in college.' But it's true - as long as I have worked on prev...

Rosalind Wiseman

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

Sandy Adams

I had no interest in high school besides art.

Damian Loeb

The ones who stay unnoticed often see the most. They live out other people's lives, since their own are so unremarkable...

After School Nightmare, Volume 8

This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic.

Plainsong

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

Levon Helm

I was a rebellious adolescent. It was the '60s. Everyone was rebellious. I hated high school.

George Dyson

Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

Josie Loren

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

H. L. Mencken

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

Lacey Chabert

I went to an all-girls private school, where we played field hockey and lacrosse.

Nicole Ari Parker

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

Philip Emeagwali

I was a D student in high school and on the dean's list in college.

Patti Stanger