On A High Quotes

Whoa. If high school was suppose to be the best years of my life - at least so far - I was truly destined to have a sucky adulthood.

Who does not recall school at least in part as endless dreary hours of boredom punctuated by moments of high anxiety?

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

Lesson #456 of high school life: Never, EVER trust an alarm clock.

All the kids in the cast tell me they hated high school, but I had the best time. I guess I was one of the popular kids. I played soccer, I was class president—I even dated the homecoming queen.

I never saw the point in listening to only one thing. The low art/high art distinction comes from the establishment telling me how I'm supposed to think.

I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

You might as well aim high. Why shoot yourself in the foot when you can shoot yourself in the head?

Horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school. Come on, chug it!

I never understood the low art/high art distinction.

I knew when I was in high school that I wanted a job where they'd applaud if I showed up.

Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

You don't want to peak in high school. If you do, the rest of your life is a disaster.

Everybody is who he was in high school.

I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.

Singing was always quite a private thing... I don't think my own mum even heard me sing until after I signed with Sony just out of high school!

Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

If anybody gets highbrow around the studio, out he goes.

It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.

I played in the high school band. I was the one baritone saxophone out of 80 other people. No one could tell whether I was hittin the right notes or the wrong notes.

Leaders who led their organizations quietly and humbly, were much more effective than flashy, charismatic high profile leaders.

They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.

While my friends were discussing Pearl Harbor as the country's problem, I took it personally. It dawned on me that the Japanese attack could be my ticket out of high school.

Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity

I visualized high school as being like ‘Saved By the Bell.’

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

France must not be the only country to have a high level of welfare protection and few obligations incumbent on those who receive benefits.

I am not the sort of woman who would wear high heels with a bathing suit. Let's get that straight right now.

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

Mr. Bucchino occupies a special niche. His flowing, finely made piano ballads describe an urban single life in which relationships come and go... with high expectations, high anxiety and open hearts.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I feel like I might start crying and that I'm going to cry pee.

My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.

I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.

Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.

We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives.

I had died and woken up in High School Musical

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

There's always a bit of suspense about the particular way in which a given school year will get off to a bad start.