Quotes About School

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, and they believed him. Then he told them Obamacare would reduce the deficit and the kids all busted out laughing.

I was far too embarrassed to share the experience of Indian food at school. As a kid, you're desperate to fit in, to assimilate in some way, and everything about me stood out.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

I hated school so intensely. It interfered with my freedom. I avoided the discipline by an elaborate technique of being absent-minded during classes.

What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists

Boy walks in to class room: Teacher: Why are you late? Boy: I saw a sign on the way to school. Teacher: What did the sign say? Boy: School ahead slow down.

Whats the point of studying for finals if they are not final? We are coming back to school next year!

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I won't say ours was a tough school, but we had our own coroner. We used to write essays like: What I'm going to be if I grow up.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

In school I was never the class clown, but more the class trapeze artist. I was always being suspended.

You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.

Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years.

But most critically, sweet, never try to change the narrative structure of someone else's story, though you will certainly be tempted to, as you watch those poor souls in school, in life, heading unwittingly down dangerous tangents, fatal digressions from which they will unlikely be able to emerge. Resist the temptation. Spend your energies on your story. Reworking it. Making it better.

After a quick breakfast I headed off for school. I don't know what it was... maybe just something in the air... but I had an incredible sense of well-being that morning. Like I was ready to take on the world. Ready, in fact... for absolutely anything.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.