Henry Rollins Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back against my stupid school uniform, instructors who called me by my last name and my classmates, who, while friendly enough, were not at all inspiring.

  Henry Rollins

  Teenage, Stupid, School

• I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Fit, Young

• If you are a kid in Beverly Hills, (I am not putting down people who live in Beverly Hills) if that kid knows private school and a credit card... you can't say the kid is taking life for granted. He is taking the life that was given to him.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Kids, People

  Source: www.sinicalmagazine.com

• I am a white guy in America with an education, albeit high school, but a pretty good one. Another guy from a different demographic or different ethnicity in America can look at me and say, "You take a lot for granted." Well... okay. I just live in a white male American reality, where I hear you but I don't know if I necessarily read you.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Reality, Ethnicity

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

• My mother taught me how to read very early on and at school I was ahead of everyone in class... Reading was always something that I liked because I could do it alone and I was alone a lot of the time with my mother working the hours she did. Books became my friends very early on.

  Henry Rollins

  Mother, Book, Reading

  "#tbt An Interview with Henry Rollins". Interview with Eric Stein, www.brothersdepaul.com. January 7, 2015.

• August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.

  Henry Rollins

  School, August, Heat And Humidity

• If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, School, Kids

• I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Sound, Fans

• Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

  Henry Rollins

  School, Lunch Break, People

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