School Quotes and Sayings

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.-Albert Einstein

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.-Abraham Lincoln

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.-Mark Twain

I've never let my school interfere with my education.-Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.-Mark Twain

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.-Maya Angelou

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.-Muhammad Ali

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.-Benjamin Franklin

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.-Ronald Reagan

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.-Vince Lombardi

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.-Yogi Berra

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.-Theodore Roosevelt

Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.-Charlie Sheen

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.-Franklin D. Roosevelt

I go to school the youth to learn the future.-Robert Frost

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.-Robert Frost

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.-Henry Ford

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.-Carl Sagan

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.-Erma Bombeck

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.-H. L. Mencken

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.-Woody Allen

If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.-Lenny Bruce

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.-Stephen Leacock

When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.-Elvis Presley

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.-Fran Lebowitz

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.-Victor Hugo

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.-A. Whitney Brown

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.-Colin Powell

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.-Rick Perry

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.-Rick Perry

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

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.-Ambrose Bierce

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.-Katharine Hepburn

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.-Kin Hubbard

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.-Clint Eastwood

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.-William Butler Yeats

You send a boy to school in order to make friends - the right sort.-Virginia Woolf

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!-Henny Youngman

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.-Sophia Loren

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.-Richard M. Nixon