Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
Robert FrostI left school to concentrate on racing. It was a family decision between my mum, dad and myself.
Lando NorrisA 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 RooseveltToo often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.
Colin PowellEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinIt was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school.
Hermann HesseI hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
Dolly PartonWhen the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.
Eckhart TolleWhen I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.
Bad BunnyI went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.
Bill GatesI love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
Karl LagerfeldHistorically, the family has played the primary role in educating children for life, with the school providing supplemental scaffolding to the family.
Stephen CoveyWe knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.
Stephen CurryWriters are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo CoelhoIn my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.
Stephen HawkingEducation is what you learn after you leave school.
Robert KiyosakiThe school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnI’ve seen a look in dogs‘ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
John SteinbeckYou can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry FordWhere ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.
Angelina JolieI liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.
Steven WrightPeople don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt VonnegutThe dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda MeirI was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.
Taylor SwiftThis character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.
Adam SandlerI was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn’t know what to do with me.
J. ColeIn this knowledge-worker age, it’s now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs – so the pressure to do well is really high.
Stephen CoveyI was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was ‚Einstein.‘
Stephen HawkingI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston ChurchillIn school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.
Clint EastwoodSome of the kids in school used to call my father a fake or a phony. That kind of thing brought on a few fights.
Dwayne JohnsonI was a smart kid, but I hated school.
EminemThe smallest feline is a masterpiece.
Leonardo da VinciI never enjoyed school and I was never that good at school so leaving wasn’t the biggest thing, but the social aspect of school, leaving your friends, you lose contact with them a bit and now I have more friends at the race track than the friends I keep in touch with at school.
Lando NorrisFor many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
Eckhart TolleCollege isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
J. ColeI didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.
Margaret AtwoodCrowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource – the minds of our children.
Walt DisneyI can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Stephen KingI care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnI’m very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.
AuroraI’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.
Steven WrightYou send a boy to school in order to make friends – the right sort.
Virginia WoolfDogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.
DiogenesBack when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.
Richard BransonHaving a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.
Charles BukowskiI think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
Clint EastwoodOwners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God.
Christopher HitchensI’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.
Margaret AtwoodI let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.
Kurt VonnegutI used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.
Dolly PartonDogs never bite me – just humans.
Marilyn MonroeWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiWe learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.
Michelle ObamaI ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.
Kanye WestIf I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.
Lando NorrisNotre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.
Lou HoltzI collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.
Haruki Murakami