School quotes

“You know, them college boys ain't so smart. I sold one of my worst cars to one of 'em today. They ain't too smart.”
Paul Dooley - Dad

“- John Baker Jr: I knew this will happen...
- Patty Vare: What will happen?
- John Baker Jr: That I get turn out.
- Patty Vare: You get turn out the school?
- John Baker Jr: Not yet... but I look at you and I knew that I would be...”
Lukas Haas - John Baker Jr
Winona Ryder - Patty Vare

“- Fester: What time does school get out?
- Hammer: I don't know. I never stayed until the end.”
Patrick Labyorteaux - Fester
D.J. Harder - Hammer

“My father didn't keep me out of Vietnam so that I could die in my own high school!”
Gerrit Graham - Bob Spinnaker

“- Mr. Evans: Before they built their church, even, they built that schoolhouse. And they let in every tailor's son... and every farmer's daughter in that country.
- Jack Bull Chiles: Spellin' won't help you hold a plow any firmer. Or a gun either.”
Zach Grenier - Mr. Evans
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

“- Thornton Melon: What's your favorite subject?
- Bubbles the Hot Tub Girl: Poetry.
- Thornton Melon: Really? Well, maybe you can help me straighten out my Longfellow.”
Rodney Dangerfield - Thornton Melon
Becky LeBeau - Bubbles the Hot Tub Girl

“- Dave: I'm supposed to take this college entrance exam.
- Cyril: Are you gonna go to college?
- Dave: Hell no. I just want to see if I can pass.”
Dennis Christopher - Dave
Daniel Stern - Cyril

“I like art, I work in a gas station, my best friend is a tomboy. These things don't fly too well in the American high school.”
Eric Stoltz - Keith Nelson

“- Vincent's Mom: How's school?
- Vincent: I love it. If they had it at night, I'd never leave.
- Vincent's Mom: You know, it's going to be so interesting to see what you're like when you get out of this gloomy stage.”
Lucinda Jenney - Vincent's Mom
Vincent Kartheiser - Vincent

“- Anna Coleman: Fresh air will do you good.
- Harry Coleman: But what about bullies?
- Anna Coleman: Run fast.”
Lindsay Lohan - Anna Coleman
Ryan Malgarini - Harry Coleman

“- Julia: How was your first day at school?
- Bea: Well, a little girl wet herself.
- Julia: And?
- Bea: The teacher took her to the front of the class and beat her with a cane, until she stopped crying. And then she beat her some more and then the cane broke.
- Julia: My God, you can't go back there.
- Bea: Why not, of course I can. Only joking!”
Kate Winslet - Julia
Bella Riza - Bea

“- The Sorting Hat: Difficult. Plenty of courage, I see. Not a bad mind, either. There's talent, oh yes. And a thirst to prove yourself. But where to put you?
- Harry Potter: Not Slytherin. Not Slytherin.
- The Sorting Hat: Not Slytherin? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It's all here in your head. And Slytherin will help you on the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Leslie Phillips - The Sorting Hat
Daniel Radcliffe - Harry Potter

“The thing about Harvard for somebody from the working class like us - we come from a working class background - is a terrible sense of isolation, of aloneness there.”
Billy Crudup - Fielding Pierce

“- Tom Foyle: From now on, you're going to Sunday School every Sunday. Rain or shine, you're going.
- Kitty Foyle: But why, Pop?
- Tom Foyle: It'll be giving you a little Christian upbringing. A sense of values.”
Ernest Cossart - Tom Foyle
Ginger Rogers - Kitty Foyle

“When I was in high school, even the biggest losers had a bird of a feather.”

Keith David - Detective John Mulchaey

“One of the things I do remember is my first day at school. There were all these weird-looking kids and I didn't know any of them and they didn't know me. I was scared, but after two days, we were all laughing about how scared we were. Everybody feels like you do, honey. Everybody.”

Harrison Ford - Henry Turner

“You will sing the school song upon demand, or suffer dire consequences!”

Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“That's Fintan Slattery. He's going to be a saint when he gets older. everyone knows he wears his sister's blouse at night, and curls his hair with hot iron tongs, so that he'll look gorgeous at mass on sundays. It's no wonder we played truant.”

Andrew Bennett - Narrator

“I didn't make it all the way through third grade for nothing.”
George C. Scott - McLeach

“- Mr. Thorn: Murph! What's 3 plus 2?
- Murph: Mmmmm... 4.
- Mr. Thorn: Murph, you've been in the 6th grade since I started teaching here, I really want to get you out this year. Now, please, please work with me. What's 3 plus 2?”
James Tolkan - Mr. Thorn
Eric Edwards - Murph

“- Herbert Jones: What we need is a miracle.
- Meg Smith: Yeah. Like that time when the school got torched right before finals.”
Michael Blake - Herbert Jones
Nicole de Boer - Meg Smith

“- Billy Madison: Well, I made the duck blue because I'd never seen a blue duck before and I wanted to see one.
- Miss Lippy: Well, I think it's an excellent blue duck. Congratulations Billy, you just passed the first grade.”
Adam Sandler - Billy Madison
Dina Platias - Miss Lippy

My mom's gonna kill me. I'm the first one to go to college in my family and when I left she said "Weensie, if you screw this up, I'll kill you". She showed me the knife.

Jerod Mixon - Weensie

“- North: How does that get me into a good college?
- Governor Ho: Well since we don't use the letters B, C, D and F, you're pretty much guaranteed to get straight A's.”
Elijah Wood - North
Keone Young - Governor Ho

“- Linda: I don't know if I can go. My mom's on my case about my grades.
- Jeff: Mine too, but I'll be there!”

Brinke Stevens - Linda
David Millbern - Jeff