Quotes of: Secondary-school Keyword

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

Stephen Covey

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

T. D. Jakes

I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.

Joe Lhota

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

Roald Dahl

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction...

Nico Tortorella

Anyone having to do with medicine will have looked at Frank Netter's art work... I decided I would make him my model... getting my degree in medical illustration and then going on to medical school.

David Bolinsky

My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled...

John Howe

I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into St Martin's art school and saw a voluptuous woman sitting on a stool being sketched. I decided to get myself fired.

Malcolm Mclaren

I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn't want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students - they were guys with pipes and cardigans.

Peter Capaldi

When I went to school, you had to take art, you had to play an instrument. You had to play an instrument. But it's all degraded since then. I do not know what kind of nation we are that is cutting art, music, and gym out of the public-school curricul...

Spike Lee

No star fades faster than that of a high school athlete.

The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town

Without action, a vision is just a piece of paper. In education, we have lots of paper.

Insights into Action: Successful School Leaders Share What Works

I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.

If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers." She slapped my back. "Welcome to high school.

Shelter

I am starting to think that maybe memories are like this dessert. I eat it, and it becomes a part of me, whether I remember it later or not.

The School of Essential Ingredients

Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it's a compliment.

Mom's Little Black Book: Godly Advice for the High School Graduate

The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

She thinks that charm is a form of intelligence, and she respects the intelligence.

The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens

What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot...

Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 3

A lot of kids think high school represents the best years of their lives, but others recognize that it's mostly irrelevant bullshit, and that life doesn't even begin until afterward.

Liars, Inc.

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass