„Same thing happened in the punk movement in the late 70's…a punk band would start, play one gig, and get signed to a major label right away, 'cause it [was] a trend. That just shows there are a lot of old school dinosaurs in the record industry who need to be weeded out.“

„The way Miramax handled it was B. S. There were a lot of crossing political agendas going on, and the reasons in the press weren't entirely true. It was like 'Are we seeing the same movie here?' I've always thought it's better to get people talking about the issue of school violence as opposed to trying to pretend it didn't happen.“

—  Julia Stiles American actress 1981

On O
Details, September 2001

„My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.“

—  Leona Lewis British singer-songwriter 1985

Daily Mail, March 2008

„Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot showing off his car, five years after he graduated.“

—  Rachel Maddow American journalist 1973

The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC (April 3, 2009)

„Industry, which needs young men who are healthy, tractable, unpretentious and, I would even say, full of illusions, often receives engineers who are tired out, weak in body, and less ready than one could wish to take modest jobs and work so hard that everything seems easy to them. I am convinced that they could begin practical work much earlier and just as well prepared, by leaving things which are not used in practice out of their school education.“

—  Henri Fayol Developer of Fayolism 1841 - 1925

p. 909

„Roger: Let's see.. Chris and Vinnie knew each other in high school and were in bands and then moved to Gainesville, Florida for college. I moved to Gainesville, Florida for college. And then Chris had a party and I told him I played guitar. Which I played guitar at that time. And he said you should come and play guitar then I went to practice with a guitar and then they're like, "Oh, by the way, we're going to be kicking out our bass player - would you mind playing bass?" I said OK. So I went out and bought a bass and that was in '92. And that's how it started. Then we started getting into the horn player thing. Shuffled a few horn players over the years but it's been the same main four guys the whole time.“

—  Roger Manganelli American musician 1973

„You basically have to trick yourself into incredible intensity to do this stuff, and I do a good job of pretending that I’m racing to save my mom from getting killed or my sister from being raped—some horrible thing that causes me to dig deep, like old-school ‘Braveheart’ s---. If you come into battle with that in your head, you’re gonna be a different person than if you think you’re just going out for a little swordfight. But when you do that for 10 years straight, it wears your a-- out. It’s like crying wolf to yourself a million times. And at some point, you start to say, ‘Why am I doing this?“

—  Bode Miller American alpine ski racer 1977

Interview with Newsweek, Nov. 2005, pub. 23 Feb. 2006 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11522274/

„During my punk phase in the nineties, I was really into Nirvana. My wardrobe consisted of ripped corduroy jeans and flannel shirts. One day after school, I dyed my hair blue. Mom wasn't a fan of this decision.“

—  Ivanka Trump American businesswoman, socialite, fashion model and daughter of Donald Trump 1981

10 October 2017, Raising Trump page 74 https://books.google.ca/books?id=gQ5aDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT74
2017

„I would say the main thing in any young kid's life is education. Even if a guy is prejudiced, he can be educated to understand why he is prejudiced. Education plays a great role in all life, whether you're black or white. You've got to go to high school, you've got to go to college. When you come out of college or high school, you can play sports. If you ever get hurt, they can't take that brain away from you, you've got that.“

—  Willie Mays Baseball player 1931

Academy of Achievement Interview (1996)

„Raven! What are you doing up so late? You have school tomorrow!"…"But I thought it was just the one time?“

—  Ellen Schreiber, book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

„That's wrong," she declared. "Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It's just a matter of drawing it out, isn't it? But school doesn't know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It's no wonder most people never get to be what they want to be. They just get ground down.“

—  Haruki Murakami Japanese author, novelist 1949

Source: Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World (1985), Chapter 19: Hamburgers,Skyline and Deadline

„There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.“

—  Chris Colfer actor, singer, book author 1990

Personal Quotes 2009–2012
Source: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/4919495.Chris_Colfer, Good Reads Book Reviews.

„If the young vegan kids of our nation
Are at school and can't get vegan bites,
Then the school staff need food education
Because safe food are one of our rights.“

—  Benjamin Zephaniah English poet and author 1958

The Little Book Of Vegan Poems (2001)

„You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that!“

—  Jeff Foxworthy American stand-up comedian 1958

Have Your Loved Ones Spayed and Neutered (2004)

„A wonderfully funny letter was sent to me signed by a fraternity in Boston, Massachusetts, U. S., medical school; the fraternity for doctors had voted me the body on which they would most like to operate.“

—  Dyanne Thorne American actress 1943 - 2020

Interview, Fabian Paffendorf, wicked-vision.com, November, 2003, 2007-09-30 http://www.wicked-vision.com/artikel/thorne/e_interview.php,
( also available in German http://www.wicked-vision.com/artikel/thorne/d_interview.php).

„I hated school, and dropped out of college. I got picked on a lot in school, and had a lot of trouble making friends.“

—  Bram Cohen American programmer, creator of BitTorrent 1975

„I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them to pre-school. It's this charged combination of stress and joy and anxiety and excitement. When they're away, you've got a sudden loss of purpose and this ever-present fear about the kid's welfare. The departure of our children from our nest is not an easy thing.“

—  Vera Farmiga American actress 1973

As quoted in " Q&A: Bates Motel's Vera Farmiga on the Terrors of Parenthood http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a27056/vera-farmiga-interview/" by Eric Spitznagel at Esquire (February 1, 2014)

„Half the things you've been taught in school are just convenient fictions. History is a puppet show for childish minds.“

—  John Twelve Hawks American writer

Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)

„nowiki>[Michael Jackson] did real damage in my overall life. I was a 12-year-old boy who was hurt by his family and ignored by people at school. Michael would sit and talk to me for hours and he would listen. Then he would get bored. The biggest thing that Michael's done to children is befriending the ones that are in need and then abandoning them“

—  Corey Feldman American actor 1971

"Corey Feldman Slams Michael Jackson" http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/07/23/corey_feldman_slams_michael_jackson_, Starpulse.com (July 23, 2008). Retrieved July 12, 2012.

„The schooling system we have in the Western world is crazy – you’re taken away from your parents at your most impressionable age and fed a load of bullshit and lies manipulated to make you think that the way we live in the West is stable and moral, when really it’s neither. You come out of school with a one-track mind based on financial success; you’re encouraged to become enslaved to the banking system. In school, I always felt, ‘Something’s not right here’ and I’m starting to find out what it is. Being outside of the norm gives you freedom of thought and that’s something being suppressed in school and the media. If you have freedom of thought you get labeled as a crazy person or someone strange.“

—  Мэттью Беллами English singer-songwriter 1978