On A High Quotes

The Gatsby that I remember reading when I was 15 years old in junior high school was far different from the Gatsby I read as an adult.

We should have high expectations of our children, but politicians should not tell teachers how to meet them.

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that.

I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

When I was in high school, I became interested in cytochemistry: chemical analysis under the microscope, and trying to understand the composition of cells.

I never thought of myself as unlucky. When you aim high, it's tough to get there unless something really fortunate happens.

The hardest part was when I was in high school not having a job and always being broke. I had to get to auditions without a car. I either took the bus or walked.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

Being famous is just like being in high school. But, I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

Like the vast majority of my constituents, I continue to be concerned about record profits reported by petroleum companies at a time when consumers are paying record high prices for gasoline.

My number one advice to high school girls is birth control. You want to keep all your options open for as long as possible? Birth control.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

I am wrestling with the overalls trend. I wore so many pairs in junior high, and no one thought they were cute. Perhaps I'll try them cuffed with a tasteful crop top?

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.

I don't want to play high schoolers anymore. I guess I don't feel that way. I just want to play characters who are really good.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

I had a lot of insecure moments in high school. It wasn't all peachy keen. But, I don't necessarily think that I hated high school and wanted to crawl into a hole either.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

We need timeless principles to steer by in running our organizations and building our personal careers. We need high standards --- the ethics of excellence.

The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.

At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.

I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler.

But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.