#school

When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#ages #back #beyond #borders #court

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

#drafted #gas #going #had #high

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#faulkner #hemingway #high #high school #i

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible. ↗

— Barack Obama

#desire #education #get #grades #investing

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

#age #although #classics #diversion #few

From the time I started school, it was clear to everyone that I wasn't learning at the same pace as other kids. ↗

— Carre Otis

#everyone #i #kids #learning #other

I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences. ↗

— Buck Owens

#bob #did #hell #i #influences

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools. ↗

— Major Owens

#challenge #education #important #massive #public

I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school. ↗

— Samantha Fox

#girl #i #kids #myself #public

It's not like it's hard to be decent and respectful and well-behaved. I do wait in line, and I do take the subway, and I do do my own grocery shopping, and I do take the kids to school. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#grocery #grocery shopping #hard #i #i do