There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me. – Kamala Harris
Our children are taught in school to hate their own country. – Donald Trump At Mount Rushmore July 3, pre-July 4 holiday event holiday.
Don’t tell the children, we’ve actually kept it going through the holidays. I feel very mean. – Kate Middleton On continuing to home school her children during Easter holidays.
Charlie Brown: School starts Monday. Sally Brown: Not for me! Charlie Brown: What do you mean, not for you? Sally Brown: I went last year! – Charles M. Schulz Peanuts.
This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to us young people for hope. How dare you. You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. Yet I am one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. – Greta Thunberg At UN climate action summit, New York, 23 September 2019.
Many of you appear concerned that we are wasting valuable lesson time, but I assure you we will go back to school the moment you start listening to science and give us a future. – Greta Thunberg After 1.6 million students skipped school to protest against climate inaction by governments.
We are all busy. It’s easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th. – Joseph B. Wirthlin
Since my high school years, I have been interested in history, especially in Roman history, a topic on which I have read rather extensively. The Latin that goes with this kind of interest proved useful when I had to generate a few terms and names for cell biology. – George Emil Palade
People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: ‘I hope they’re doing well in school. I hope they’re bright.’ And I think: ‘Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?’ Academia is a lonely world. – Helen McCrory
I came to L.A. in 1970, and my desire and my training was to be a studio musician, which I had read about in my senior year in high school. – Harvey Mason, Jr.
Then, when I got in the military, I used to host – even in high school – I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff. – Gary Owens
I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back. – Geoff Davis
My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school. – Greg Mortenson
Looking back, I realise it wasn’t only gym I dreaded at school. Every class was a torment. It wasn’t knowledge I objected to but instruction. Why couldn’t they just tell us what books to read and leave us to get on and read them? – Howard Jacobson
I know I’m not known as method. By nature I’m not a brooder. What I continue to use is a mixture of the English school, which is traditionally outside-in, and the more American way of working from the inside out. – Hugh Jackman
At 15 years of age, I left school to practice the profession of Office Boy in a business firm in Salem, Oregon. – Herbert Hoover
At school, my favorite subjects were history, biology, chemistry, and physics. Especially the teaching in physics was excellent. Most of my understanding of it I got at high school, not at the university. – Hartmut Michel
After my grandfather began to be successful, he returned to the village where he was born and founded a primary school. – Guler Sabanci
I grew up on a farm in Lexington, Oklahoma, a rural community south of Norman. My family moved to Enid, Oklahoma, in 1962, when I was a junior in high school. This cast me into a totally different environment. Enid was a company town for Champlin Petroleum, and there was an oil boom going on. – Harold Hamm
I’d go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I’d take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That’s how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques. – Herb Ritts
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school. – Harmony Korine
I think it magnified it. For me, I wasn’t sheltered so I think it was magnified. Especially when you’re a teenager and you go to high school and you’re in the business and you are known. – Heather Matarazzo
If your kids attend school and grades are up that will make $1,000 contributions to some 10,000 kids across the country, are challenging kids to learn foreign languages or challenging kids to get summer jobs or seek summer enrichment opportunities? – Harold Ford, Jr.
My favorite play in drama school was ‘The Bacchae.’ It’s about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy – it’s related to the word ‘bacchanal’ – and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires. – Hugh Jackman
In high school, I stole a six-foot submarine sandwich from a banquet room in front of several hundred people. I did it because I was in marching band, and we were promised food if we played, and they broke their promise. It was my first and only heist, motivated by justice and hunger. – Greg van Eekhout
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. – H. L. Mencken
In America, we have 19th century school conditions and a curriculum that prepares our kids for the 1990s. – Heidi Hayes Jacobs