Top 30 Secondary School Quotes

I got jumped on by eight girls in my first year at secondary school. I was 11. I was going down to the shop for lunch, I didn’t know them, and it was for no reason. I stood up for myself. I wasn’t hurt, but I lost some hair.

I’ve been acting since I was 5 years old, from primary school to secondary school, did training at drama school, which was the big thing for me because they trained me, put me out into the industry.

Secondary school was a lot harder. That was probably my hardest time. Some of the girls were really nasty. I had to move schools because of the bullying there.

I was not much interested in school, and both at secondary school and at university, I only just scraped through, with as little effort as I judged possible without failing.

When I was in secondary school, I cared about nothing but music.

I always loved drama at school. We had a great drama teacher at my secondary school, and she made drama feel cool. She inspired me, and then I did the National Youth Theatre in London.

I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way.

What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school – like high school – I met many other Ghanaian schoolgirls whose parents were also born in Ghana and were raising them here. We automatically had a huge kinship that was amazing.

I believe in education, but I think the balance has to be right between theory and practical experience. I think from secondary school onwards it should be more about preparing you for life and work in the real world.

Getting expelled from secondary school and going to a more arty-farty college gave me the incentive to perform and opened some doors.

It was during my time at secondary school that I abandoned religion.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, ‘You can’t come in unless you have these skills, unless you’ve taken these courses.’ We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

My first secondary school was in East Finchley, and I was one of only five white people in the year. I was really skinny and flat-chested with frizzy hair. I don’t consider myself posh, but my mum brought me up to speak properly, and they picked up on that, as all kids do.

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad’s old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.

In secondary school, I became aware of the idea of being cool, and that was a bit of a shell shock.

In secondary school I was floating – I wasn’t passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear.

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

I really didn’t enjoy myself at secondary school, but the one thing I did leave with was eight fantastic, beautiful, brilliant, amazing girlfriends.

George and I met in 1975 at Bushey Meads secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire. I was in my second year – self-confident, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and excitable. He was the new boy and I was keen that I should get to look after him.

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

At primary school, I thought I was George Best. Then I got to secondary school, and it was more serious.

I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

The fact is, it wasn’t enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

Driving to set for ‘The Rig’, the route went right past my old secondary school. Every morning when I was going to work, I was passing Leithy and thinking: ‘Oh my God, there’s where Billy Gilfillan punched me in the mouth’ or whatever.

The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren’t enjoying it.

When I was younger I was always big; I was a fat boy at school. I had an early growth spurt, and when I went to secondary school I was tall enough to be a policeman.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

I was a very anxious kid. I was bullied at primary school and responded by making myself as anonymous as possible at secondary school.

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.