Quotes About School

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 make movies.'

It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Now in a lot of rural towns in Kentucky, the school system is the heartbeat of the community, not to mention one of the major employers.

I always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

I slipped through every school I went to without leaving a trace. I was in no team; I was never a prefect. I was totally mediocre - well, I probably still am - but at places like Summer Fields and Eton, it's all about sport and doing your bit, and I always preferred to watch telly or read a book than run round a field.

I do tend to lose track since the kids are out of school.

I noticed that no matter where I went in the country, there was this group of questions that got asked. I would track them and keep them in categories. Like body image, school, family, friendship, you name it, the emotional life of a teenage girl.

In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.

I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.

I was in seventh grade math class, and we had this thing called Number Sense. So, I wasn't on the track team. Wasn't on the football team. Wasn't on the basketball team. I was in the Number Sense Club.

So, after school, I needed to learn a trade and started to work as a tailor.

I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.

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

The first drugs I ever took, I was still at art school, with the group - we all took it together - was Benzedrine from the inside of an inhaler.

In every school I've gone to, all the athletic bastards stick together.

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

Not having to travel and being able to settle in has helped me in training life and school life. I've learned to get a grip and take care of myself.

As I've started school I have a student-feeling wardrobe and then because I travel a lot, things feel very different for different places and days.

I did one or two plays at school. Once I played a tree, so I never thought I would be a good actor.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.