High School Quotes - Page 16

• Even in high school, I'd tell my mom I was sick of swimming and wanted to try to play golf. She wasn't too happy. She'd say, 'Think about this.' And I'd always end up getting back in the pool.

  Michael Phelps

  Mom, School, Golf

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• Religion works. I know there's comfort there, a crash pad. It's something to explain the world and tell you there is something bigger than you, and it is going to be alright in the end. It works because it's comforting. I grew up believing in it, and it worked for me in whatever my little personal high school crisis was, but it didn't last for me.

  Brad Pitt

  Believe, School, Comforting

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• As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

  Nicole Polizzi

  School, Thinking, People

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• I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

  Iggy Pop

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• 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.

  Paula Poundstone

  School, Voice, Giving

  "Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!" by Paula Poundstone, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

  Dennis Prager

  School, College, Perspective

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• When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.

  Elvis Presley

  School, Boys, Boots

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• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.

  Anna Quindlen

  Kids, School, Talking

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• I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

  Christopher Reeve

  Summer, School, College

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• I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.

  John C. Reilly

  School, Swings, Dragons

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• Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

  Jason Reitman

  School, Past, People

  "Director Jason Reitman Talks YOUNG ADULT and His LACMA Live Reading Series". Interview with Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. December 15, 2011.

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• You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Missing You, Giving Up, School

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• After I left high school and got my GED, I studied broadcast journalism for a year at a community college.

  Chris Rock

  School, College, Years

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• High school taught me a valuable lesson about glasses: Don't wear them. Contacts have always seemed like too much work, so instead I just squint, figuring that if something is more than ten feet away, I'll just deal with it when I get there.

  David Sedaris

  School, Glasses, Feet

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• But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.

  Emily Giffin

  Girl, School, Dating

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe in for four years. A video game you played, where you could never get to the next level no matter how hard you tried.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, School, Reality

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Meg Cabot

  School, Years, Best Year

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Airhead:”, p.216, Scholastic Inc.

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• Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Couple, School, Doe

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• I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

  John Scalzi

  School, Graduates, Angst

  John Scalzi (2010). “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008”, p.26, Macmillan

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• You know, small children take it as a matter of course that things will change every day and grown-ups understand that things change sooner or later and their job is to keep them from changing as long as possible. It’s only kids in high school who are convinced they’re never going to change. There’s always going to be a pep rally and there’s always going to be a spectator bus, somewhere out there in their future.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Children, Teenager

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

  Sara Zarr

  Senior, Sorry, Real

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Jobs, Nice, School

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• Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Regret, Teenager, Moving

  Sarah Addison Allen (2010). “The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel”, p.90, Bantam

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• My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

  Jodi Picoult

  Jobs, School, Skills

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

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• Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Senior, Baby, Home

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