Tomkinson School Quotes

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden. ~ Irene Tomkinson

My fear of loneliness is like a disease. ~ Irene Tomkinson

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it. ~ Irene Tomkinson

I had been running as fast as I could for all of my adult life. A person can't listen effectively while running. A running mother is not able to pick up clues. She is not able to let go of her own agenda long enough to stop and listen. ~ Irene Tomkinson

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it. ~ Jason Mewes

Shigure Sohma: singing High school girls high school girls all for me High school girls ~ Natsuki Takaya

In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized. ~ William James

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

School doesn't teach you much. School teaches you how to follow directions, that's what school is for. ~ Vince Staples

I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system. ~ John Hume

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God. ~ John Piper

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. ~ Evelyn Waugh

I went to Samuel Ayer High School, which is now Milpitas High School. ~ Grant Show

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School. ~ Dylan Lauren

High school was interesting, because I went from a public school middle school to an academy where the first year we were doing Latin, chemistry, biology. I mean, I was woefully unprepared for the type of study. ~ Kyle Chandler

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school. ~ Fritz Sauckel

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school. ~ Billy Corgan

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. ~ Ted Nelson

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be. ~ William J. Bernstein

Adults always ask kids how they are doing at school. The one subject kids absolutely hate talking about. You don't even want to talk about school when you are at school. ~ David Walliams

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class. ~ Ferid Murad

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high ~ Heinrich Heine

High School is the penalty for transgressions yet to be specified. ~ Frank Portman

In high school, everybody rapped. You just pounded on the table. ~ Boots Riley

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys. ~ Simone Elkeles

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. ~ David E. Kelley

I used to play tenor sax in high school, man. ~ Sean Price

Old school Janet Jackson is always good. I usually go old school, it's very rare that I pick a song from nowadays. ~ Jenna Dewan

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting. ~ Andrew Forrest

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. ~ Jim Fowler

I did my English A level in England, and we studied Shakespeare. I had great, great high school teachers, and we parsed the text within an inch of its life. ~ Joss Whedon

Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore. ~ Robin Williams

As I very much liked to draw and paint as a child, I entered a special art program in high school, which was very much like being in an art school imbedded in a regular high school curriculum. ~ Jerome Isaac Friedman

Look, we ought to do this for our kids ... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education. ~ Robert D. Putnam

If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate. ~ Sam Zell

I wasn't the high-school play queen or anything. And my parents would let not me act until I graduated from college. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

For everyone who never smiled in school
photos, for all who've wandered city streets
not knowing the where they were
or feeling alone, I've packed kindness. ~ Kelli Russell Agodon

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army. ~ Tommy Lasorda

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it. ~ Adam Riess

I didn't leave business school to go bankrupt. ~ Steve Ballmer

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984. ~ Samuel Wilson

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me. ~ Adam Oates

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school. ~ Anita Roddick

A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass ... Will you?" ~ James E. Myers

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin. ~ James Woods

The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University. ~ Fred Thompson

My best memory of school was probably leaving school. Because I hated that fucking place. ~ Troye Sivan

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it. ~ Sandra Dodd

My mother was told she couldn't go to medical school because she was a woman and a Jew. So she became a teacher in the New York City public school system. ~ Marilyn Hacker

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start. ~ Frank Portman

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn. ~ Vijay Dhameliya

Hollywood, it's just like high school. Whoever is pretty and popular, everyone wants to be with. ~ Tucker Max

You can get all A's and still flunk life. ~ Walker Percy

Everybody is who he was in high school. ~ Calvin Trillin

High school was great when it ended. ~ Jennifer Stone

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you. ~ Tom Ford

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education? ~ Audrey Regan

School just speeds things up ... Without school it might take 70 years before you wake up and are able to count. ~ Louis Sachar

When my first wife & I began the school, we had one main idea: to make the school fit the child - instead of making the child fit the school. ~ Alexander Sutherland Neill

Encouragement from my high school teacher Patty Hart said 'you need to focus and theater might be your route out of here.' I created the program, went to college and graduate school and now here I am. ~ Jeffrey Donovan

Teaching middle school is an adventure not a job. ~ Angela K. Bennett

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I was actually going to law school in 1972. ~ Frank Shorter

My first girlfriend in high school, I had a girlfriend in grade school, but my first girlfriend in high school was Mare Winningham, very fine actress. ~ Val Kilmer

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students. ~ Bill Cosby

I was always acting. I was doing after-school plays and stuff like that. ~ Justin Theroux

The idea that because the school day is shorter or the school year is shorter than the sort of white collar workday or work year, that does not actually capture how teachers spend their time. ~ Dana Goldstein

The only thing that kept me out of college was high school. ~ Uncle Kracker

Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. ~ Kristen Bell

I'm on my high school football team and MUST show how much I know. ~ Jimmy Breslin

I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year. ~ Uzo Aduba

The winners of the 15th Interschool Environmental Public Speaking competition were: Ambassador Private School, Star International School, Dubai National School (Girls), Al Barsha and Dubai National School (Boys), Al Barsha.Overall winners were Ambassador Private School and overall 1st runner-up: Dubai National School (Girls), Al Barsha and overall 2nd Runner-up: Star International School. ~ Anonymous

Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city. ~ Nick Kroll

I went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron James ~ LeBron James

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. ~ George Foreman

Don't go to business school. ~ Paul Hawken

I'm an old-school guy. ~ LaDainian Tomlinson

School is a jail, people want there a lot of and when you are out of school what you know from school you remember few and it's useless. So far 12 years at school... (Take it 12 years at jail!) ~ Deyth Banger

I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things. ~ Erin Heatherton

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~ Dana Scott

I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school. ~ Amy Sedaris

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

School is a twelve-year jail sentence where bad habits are the only curriculum truly learned. I teach school and win awards doing it. I should know. ~ John Taylor Gatto

What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school. ~ James Patterson

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school. ~ Mary-Kate Olsen

I was hell-bent on being a soccer player all through junior high and high school. ~ James Snyder

Children in home-school conflict situations often receive a double message from their parents: "The school is the hope for your future, listen, be good and learn" and "the school is your enemy ... " Children who receive the "school is the enemy" message often go after the enemy
act up, undermine the teacher, undermine the school program, or otherwise exercise their veto power. ~ James P. Comer

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. ~ Ted Nelson

We ain't have video recorders back in high school, or at least we couldn't afford them. ~ Sean Price

I was using the word awesomeness while you were still in high school, popping zits. ~ Edge

I didn't cheer in high school. I was the farthest thing from a cheerleader in high school. We made fun of cheerleaders. Everybody did! ~ Sarah Roemer

I was a man by middle school. ~ Edgerrin James

I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off. ~ Mindy Kaling

After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators. ~ Bill Sienkiewicz

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school. ~ Vinod Khosla

To me, it looks like an opportunity for school choice. I'd also like to see a pilot program to allow true school choice ? vouchers. ~ David Bradley

In 1989 I came to New York to go to the School of Visual Arts. Then, after two years, I switched over to the New School for Social Research and did cultural anthropology in the graduate school there. ~ Aleksandra Mir

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. ~ Emeli Sande

I didn't go to acting school, but I've been observing my fellow man for 66 years now, and I would think that's the best school there is. ~ Wilford Brimley

Extroverts never understand introverts, and it was like that in school days. I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. ~ Neil Peart