School quotes

“When I was in high school the thing I wanted most when I was stuck in class, the thing that I was desperately in pursuit of, was a hall pass. That's all I ever wanted. I loved moving freely around the school while everybody else was trapped in there. That's how I feel right now. Like I have some giant - all day - hall pass.”
Mary McDonnell - Althea Brockett

“Most of you are going to go on to college. You're gonna be the people that change the world. Believe me, the world is changing.”

Don Draper - Mr. Heaton

It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude".
Bernie Casey - Mr. Ryan

“I always thought the only alien in this high school was me.”
Clea DuVall - Stokely 'Stokes' Mitchell

“- James Bond: Where did you learn to fight like that? NASA?
- Holly Goodhead: No. Vassar.”
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond
Lois Chiles - Holly Goodhead

“They kicked us out of school? That makes sense.”
Tim Matheson - Eric Stratton

“This is public school. If I can keep the girls off the pole and the boys off the pipe, I get a bonus.”
Malcom McDowell - Principal Gibbons

“You know, kindergarten is like the ocean. You don't want to turn your back on it.”
Penelope Ann Miller - Joyce

They all have husbands and wives and children and houses and dogs, and, you know, they've all made themselves a part of something and they can talk about what they do. What am I gonna say? "I killed the Pesident of Paraguay with a fork. How've you been?".

John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“This is no Mickey Mouse school. You're not getting off easy. Because you're talented, you'll work twice as hard. Now, I don't care how well you dance or how many colored tutus you have. If you don't give your academic subjects equal time, you're out.”
Anne Meara - Mrs. Sherwood

“Welton Academy, hello. Yes, he is. Just a moment. Mr. Nolan, it's for you. It's God. He says we should have girls at Welton.”

Gale Hansen - Charlie Dalton

“Here I am at this great school, and there's not one course on love.”
Mandy Moore - Anna Foster

“- Arlene: [about the nametags she's made for the high school reunion] I had the yearbook pictures put on so everybody knows who everybody was!
- Martin Q. Blank: A special torture!”
Audrey Kissel - Arlene
John Cusack - Martin Q. Blank

“- Rick Latimer: I want a full-school assembly during sixth period, today.
- 1st Teacher: Are you mad? Do you know what could happen?
- 2nd Teacher: Why are you doing this?
- Rick Latimer: I like the attention.”

Jim Belushi - Rick Latimer

“High school is like the training wheels for the bicycle of real life. It is a time when young people can explore different fields of interest and hopefully learn from their experiences.”
Rini Bell - Graduation Speaker

“- Meg Bethune: Do you know what they did with his underwear? They ran it up the flag pole just to humilate him. And he gets up and goes back there every single day. Don't you tell me I don't know how strong my son is. I know. And if he wants to go to any God damn school where kids won't slap their belly every time he walks by, then he damn well...” (continue)(continue reading)

Kathy Bates - Meg Bethune
George C. Scott - Grandpa Ivan

“- Jennifer 'Jenny' Morgan: I heard about your good news, congratulations, the children will finally have a mother again.
- Vivian Berger: Oh, I wouldn't go that far, boarding schools in Switzerland are year-round you know.”
Heidi Lenhart - Jennifer 'Jenny' Morgan
Jane Sibbett - Vivian Berger

“Get this disgrace to his race out of here!”

Morgan Freeman - Principal Joe Clark

“Listen guys, there are plenty of successful people who didn't go to college. Albert Einstein. You know? Pocahontas never went to college. Corey Feldman and Corey Haim; they had a great run. Both Lewis and Clark. Suzanne Somers. Bono.”
Justin Long - Bartleby Gaines

“Look, we all know home-ec is a joke, no offense, it's just that everyone takes this class to get an A, and it's bullshit, and I'm sorry. I'm not putting down your profession, but it's just the way I feel.”

Jonah Hill - Seth

“I don't play, woman. I quit school 'cuz of recess!”
D.L. Hughley - Derrick West

“- Smokey Adams: Did you ever go to school, stupid?
- Pomeroy Watson: Yeah, and I come out the same way.”
Bud Abbott - Smokey Adams
Lou Costello - Pomeroy Watson

“- Teacher: Oh, and Mr. Larkin, perhaps you'd like to share with the rest of the class, Patrick Henry's immortal last words?
- Link Larkin: Kiss my ass?”
Joe Parro - Teacher
Zac Efron - Link Larkin

“- Wendy: Don't talk to them about school.
- Skeeter Bronson: Why not?
- Wendy: They're closing it down. I'm getting laid off.
- Skeeter Bronson: No way! You? But you're like the classic school principle! I mean you're scary and bad with people...”
Courteney Cox - Wendy
Adam Sandler - Skeeter Bronson

“- Freddy Shoop: Hey, I remember you. Where have you been?
- Jerome Watkins: Bathroom.
- Freddy Shoop: For the last six weeks?
- Jerome Watkins: My zipper got stuck.”
Mark Harmon - Freddy Shoop
Duane Davis - Jerome Watkins