Quotes About School

I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I wasn't one of those girls who always dreamed of being an actress. I went to a normal school and then these film auditioners turned up when I was nine. Then I just fell into this whirlwind.

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

I was always getting in trouble for whispering in class.

The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.

The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.

I went to an all white school where I dealt with racism.

I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.

Do you know, if I go to a Jewish school, them kids are quiet. If I go to a white school, them kids quiet. If I go to a Latino school, they quiet. The only kids that disrespect me is black kids. That's it - my own are the only ones that disrespect me.

Especially going to Oakland public schools where as a white kid you have to figure out if you're going to sink or swim socially, one of the main ways to stay buoyant was to stay funny.

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.

I have fond memories of consuming a handful of almonds that were soaked the previous night and peeled the next morning. All through my school life, my mother would ensure she kept some almonds in my tiffin box so that I would always have my daily dose of nutrition handy.

You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.

I didn't grow up in the Catholic church, but I went to a Catholic high school and a Catholic college, and the Jesuit priests are not saints floating around campus.

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

I'm the co-chair of the PTA at my kids' school, Ashmount Primary, in north Islington, London.

My first day at Duddingston Primary is probably my first memory.

At primary school, me and my best friend used to do D.I.Y. assemblies, and we'd do it as many times as we could until we got banned! We used to sing 'Hero' by Mariah Carey; it was, like, my favourite song; we were obsessed with it. We'd do it as a duet, and it's the first I remember performing.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

In the second half of primary school, I liked live-action shows and giant-monster movies, and then in junior high, I got into regular movies.

I went to a Jewish primary school and all my parents' friends were Jewish.

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport.

I played cricket at primary school but hardly at all at high school. I was more of a footballer.