Quotes About School

I wanted to pursue my passion for cricket, but after school, I got into an engineering college.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

I was constantly on stage in school, and even while I was pursuing my MBA, I knew that I wanted to eventually become an actor.

I was in Mumbai pursuing my graduation in mass media; I was not sure what to do. I tried my hand at a couple of different things. I joined an acting school after that and eventually things fell in place.

I was never told that the purpose of school was to get a job at the end of it. What was pushed on me was a love of learning, probably because my parents didn't have access to a great education.

The school-to-prison pipeline - the disproportionality that exists in handing out school discipline in schools to Black and Brown students for simple infractions - pushes kids out of classrooms and into our ever-growing system of mass incarceration.

My mom could afford to put us in a Catholic school for grades one through seven, but not after that.

Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.

Children International is bringing a lot of hope to families who start out with nothing. They have nothing. Then Children International comes in, puts them in school, gets them what they need.

I grew up on Long Island, and from as early as I can remember, as far back as first grade, I had two real passions - one of them was putting on plays, and the other was journalism. I was directing plays and editing school papers from first grade on, all the way through college.

I was bored at school and bored in a lot of the kitchens. It seemed like all I was doing was putting things into saute pans.

I'm a risk-taker because I don't have a lot of experience in putting up a business before - I didn't really learn about this in school - but I still choose to do it, especially since I'm now getting good advice from people around me.

I was born in Massachusetts. I live in Stillwater. I went to school in Florida.

When I was 14, I came to school in London. I remember it was very cold, but also having to adjust and become fluent in English.

Believe me, I've never trained in acting. All the fluidity, the confidence you may see on screen comes from my stage performances in school and college.

We've read scripts, and I think right now we are just focusing in on school.

Academically I was never that great and I was not really into school. I don't know, I just really had a problem focusing but singing always came naturally.

My dad was in the restaurant business, but I didn't really think about following him. Had I done better at school, I don't know if I would have been a chef.

I was the star of one of the school plays when I was in Year 10. It was 'Bugsy Malone.' There is probably footage of it somewhere.

I was an average student. Not a dunce. Used to play for the school football team.

I played in the school football team, as a striker, and in year 7 and 8 I was one of the leading goalscorers.

People at school used to assume I was going to be a footballer, and it wasn't until I got to 16, when I was at Southampton, that I had a doubt for the first time in my life. Southampton said I wasn't big enough, but it was just because I hadn't grown. Simple as that.