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All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely. -- Roald Dahl
I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle. -- Tyne Daly
School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? -- Billie Joe Armstrong
I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults. -- Natalie Portman
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson. -- Tom Bodett
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life. -- Vanessa Lachey
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
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. -- Paul Merton
The plea for the predominance of learning to read in early school life because of the great importance attaching to literature seems to be a perversion. -- John Dewey
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
Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life. -- Winona Ryder
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. -- Booth Tarkington
Of all the joyous motives of school life, the love of knowledge is the only abiding one; the only one which determines the scale, so to speak, upon which the person will hereafter live. -- Charlotte Mason
Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life. -- George Andrew Olah
I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a child to feel that there are things that are bigger than your life out there. -- Reese Witherspoon
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
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice. -- Emily Watson
I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. -- R. A. Salvatore
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
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
The things that got me through grade school are helping me out later in life. It's like, I show up on time. If you buy a ticket to one of my shows, I'll show up. I'll be there. And if it says 10:00, I'll be on stage at 10:00. -- Chris Isaak
They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them. -- Eric Carle
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
I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left. -- Pauley Perrette
My family and school life are important to me. -- Anna Chlumsky
I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life. -- Halston Sage
I think there should be a good balance between being a good student and being able to enjoy your high school life. -- Vanessa Lachey
I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year. -- Anna Chlumsky
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
Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through. -- Sebastian Coe
I prefer the school of life. -- Cassandra Clare
School is a foretaste of life. -- Georg Brandes
Life is a school of probability. -- Walter Bagehot
Life is a school of the spirit. -- Stephen R. Lawhead
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school. -- Brad Holland
We learn not in the school, but in life. -- Seneca the Younger
The stage was our school, our home, our life. -- Lillian Gish
Life is a school and problems are the curriculum. -- Rick Warren
Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult. -- Emily Osment
Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future. -- Simone Elkeles
High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life. -- Jenna Ushkowitz
An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon -- Franz Bardon
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. -- Hugh Miller
I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life. -- Steve Wozniak
The proper school to learn art is not life but art -- Oscar Wilde
Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock. -- Heather Brewer
The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes. -- George Edward Woodberry
To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life. -- Isadora Duncan
Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. -- Mandy Hale
Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school. -- David Henry Hwang
Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education. -- Guy Finley
But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you. -- Nikita Khrushchev
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school. -- Dan Savage
Business is the school of life. Success in business requires success in living. -- Ehab Atalla
Parents don't believe that lifting life-chances in one school means reducing them in another. -- David Blunkett
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. -- Bill Gates
Go to school to make a living. Learn about yourself to define your life. -- Debasish Mridha M.D.
A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life. -- Elbert Hubbard
I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school. -- Kevin Richardson
life is just high school all over again, only with bigger bills to pay. -- Linda Palmer
I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life. -- Clea Duvall
Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school. -- Evan Sayet
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. -- Cobie Smulders
Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying. -- Arabella Weir
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. -- Ivan Illich
I went to school at a place that also shaped my life, Boston Latin School. -- Nat Hentoff
From your first day at school you are cut off from life to make theories. -- Taisen Deshimaru
School teaches you what to do with the rest of your life. I already knew. -- Avril Lavigne
I went to public school all my life and all through college and I liked it. -- Dave Eggers
I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life. -- Anthony Pratt
Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple. -- George Carlin
I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school. -- Beyonce Knowles
Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher. -- Simon Newcomb
It's frightening, the way life speeds up. When you're at school, time can't go fast enough. -- Bruce Forsyth
I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. -- Kevin Richardson
The household is a school of power. There, within the door, learn the tragi-comedy of human life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight. -- Jackie Kennedy
When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music. -- Big Sean
When you've come face-to-face with the dark side of the school yard, life doesn't hold many surprises. -- Eoin Colfer
I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid. -- Dakota Goyo
No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read. -- Bob Riley
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. -- James Weldon Johnson
Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work. -- Curtis Hanson
Have you noticed that the cleverest people at school are often not the ones who succeed in life? -- Paul Arden
The education of even a small child, therefore, does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life. -- Maria Montessori
What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is. -- Jodi Picoult
There's a lot of dopes in life, and in film school. The interesting people are usually easy to find. -- Tim Heidecker
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. -- Paul Theroux
The trouble with school is they give you the answer, then they give you the exam. That's not life. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. -- Elizabeth Lesser
A man's real education begins after he has left school. True education is gained through the discipline of life. -- Henry Ford
You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster. -- Candace Bushnell
High School Is Life's Way of Giving You a Record Low to Judge the Rest of Your Life By) -- Jenny Lawson
There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school. -- Alfie Allen
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. -- Winston Churchill
So the ethic I was taught in school resulted in the path I chose in my life following school. -- Kevin Mitnick
What they don't teach you in art school is how your whole life is about discovering who you already were. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life. -- John F. Kennedy
When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means. -- Mike Birbiglia
The greatest art in life is to believe in Christ. That art is learned only in the Holy Spirit's school. -- Christian Scriver
I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point. -- George Bellows
My background was art school, documentary director and surfer with a keen interest in thrilling acts of life threatening stupidity. -- Yahoo Serious
If I'd stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don't think I would have survived high school. -- Susane Colasanti
My social life is friends at the pool; I have just finished school as I am now a full-time athlete. -- Jessica-Jane Applegate
I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy. -- Drake
I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life. -- Josh Hutcherson
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life. -- Nelson Mandela
The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education. -- Mark Twain
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most. -- Corrie Ten Boom
I believe that school makes complete fools of our young men, because they see and hear nothing of ordinary life there. -- Petronius
I'm an old man, and all my life I've said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it's a national school. -- Lou Holtz
My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school. -- Robin Lord Taylor
I was a wrestler. I played football, lacrosse. After high school, I got into jujitsu. I boxed my whole adult life. -- Frank Grillo
From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic. -- Philip Baker Hall
I never went to acting school, so improv was my training. Just being quick on your feet helps in everyday life. -- Ben Schwartz
It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life. -- Natalie du Toit
I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be. -- Kristi Yamaguchi

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