School Life Quotes - Page 3

• My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.

  Michel Legrand

  Mother, Father, Home

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• School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.

  Ivan Illich

  School, Simple, Two

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• I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

  Anthony Hopkins

  School, Promise, Acting

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• I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Philosophy, Writing, School

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• When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

  John Irving

  Notebook, Writing, School

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• I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Nice, School, House

  "New Again: Destiny’s Child". Interview with Suzanne Hodges, Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2013.

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• I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

  Adriana Lima

  Inspirational, Teenager, Independent

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• I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.

  Natalie Portman

  Real, School, Thinking

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• Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  School, Self, Boots

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• But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  School, Bangs, Life Is

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• People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

  George Carlin

  Real, School, Simple

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.

  Sanford I. Weill

  Sports, School, Thinking

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• By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

  Robert Bly

  School, Men, Tough Man

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• Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.

  Eminem

  Nice, Rap, Home

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• I spend as much time with my kids as any mom who stays home. I only work during the hours they're at school, but there is always the sense of trying to catch up with all their stuff and not only organize my work life but also their school lives

  Patricia Heaton

  Mom, Home, School

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• That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.

  Bill O'Reilly

  School, Army, Boys

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• My family and school life are important to me.

  Anna Chlumsky

  School, Important, My Family

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.

  Paul Tournier

  Life, Family, Marriage

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• I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Cutting

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• Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

  Georg Brandes

  Brother, Real, Taken

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

  Mark Hoppus

  Song, Falling In Love, Teenage

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• I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

  Nelson Mandela

  Running, Distance, School

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• We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition.

  Jay Hernandez

  School, Littles, Recognition

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• My school life was very much a wandering experience. I was having trouble in school and I was not making a lot of friends. So coming home and actually improvising on the piano and just coming up with melodies was an escape for me.

  Josh Groban

  Home, School, Piano

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: "You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do."

  Doris Lessing

  Children, Sorry, School

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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