Quotes About School

I hated school, so when I got to this place with other people who could draw and were interested in wearing makeup, it was amazing.

I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.

I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

I was lucky enough to spend some of my school days in Barbados, where my father was working, and this gave me a taste for hot weather.

Our children are our most precious resource, and we must work to help ensure their safety against every type of risk, including severe weather while they're in school.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

I couldn't tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a 'J,' anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.

At school, I was only allowed four sweets every Wednesday, so I've developed an addiction.

Monday though Wednesday I am in the gym twice; then I have school at night. Those days are hard. The other days are training and writing essays. Time management has been key.

I would come home from school every Wednesday, order pizza, and watch 'X-Files.' I was devoted.

Wednesday a junior came to me, and told me I was to be hazed as I left the Opera House Friday night.

I was desperately shy when I was wee. Totally lacked confidence socially. When I look back at school photographs, I'm always the one shrinking in the back. What I really wanted to do was become a writer, and I don't think the residue of that has ever gone away. I still feel the ultimate achievement would be to write a novel.

I worked in a watercress bed, picking weeds out of watercress when I was at school. It was awful.

We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. It sat mint fresh every week on the library table, with two or three other bargain-offer magazines. The 'Statesman' came out of the unimaginable Great World. I started to read it then and have pegged along ever since.

I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

At 15 we were going back and forth to Nashville every weekend while we were still going to school.

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.

Every political party, rotary club, every college, school, all organisations organise running events. This is something that ignites the aspirations of people.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

Growing up poor, I didn't even have a lunch to take to school. Lunch was 26 cents, and we didn't even know what 26 cents looked like. I didn't love school because I wanted to disguise that I was poorer than everybody else.