High School Quotes

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

I was home-schooled for my entire high school experience, so I never went to prom.

When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

Girls aren't mean to guys in high school. They are mean to each other. Girls were never mean to me.

I had done plays in high school. It was something I always wanted to do since I was little. I was a drama major at UC-Irvine.

I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

As for acting, I took drama lessons when I was in high school.

My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

If you had seen me back in high school, there's no way you would have ever said I would become an author or teacher because I was a horrible student.

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

It often strikes me that the actors in high school movies look too old.

I've got keys to crap I've never owned. You put all my keys together I could be a high school janitor tonight.

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

I was kind of a floater [in high school]. I got along with different types of people but I just was not cool, and definitely a late bloomer.

I was home schooled in high school but was definitely the nerd in middle school.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir.

I have been coaching recently. I coached high school basketball in Arizona, and I hope that more opportunities become available.

I started in high school and then I went onto professional training after that.

Well, I was always... I used to get 100% in physics and chemistry and mathematics (well, maybe a couple of points off in mathematics), and that was in high school.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.

At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.

I started to listen to Japanese jazz musicians when I went to high school. Some people I listened to were Yosuke Yamashita, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Sadao Watanabe.

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

High school wasn't a trial by fire or some ordeal that had to be survived. It was all a big joke. You just had to provide the laugh track.

My dad is a good role model for me, and then I had a high school coach that really helped me out when I was struggling and made a big difference in my life.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.

Everyone thinks they went to high school with me. I take it as a compliment that I look different in every role.

I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.

When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.

I dated a lot of girls all through high school, and in college I dated a young lady for about eight months.