High School Quotes - Page 21

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

  Candace Bushnell

  School, Want, Rest Of Your Life

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• He's been in love with Miss Gina since high school, but he doesn't really know how to talk to girls, so he's just been...staying around her since then. He just tends to go where she goes." "Isn't that stalking?" Jazza said. "Legally, no," I replied. "I asked my parents this when I was little. What he does is creepy and socially awkward, but it's not actually stalking.

  Maureen Johnson

  Girl, School, Parent

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.37, Penguin

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• Brookfield High School. How may I direct your call? No, sir, this is not a waste- disposal unit, I'm afraid you have the wrong number.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  School, Numbers, Wrong Number

  Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Year of Secret Assignments”, p.54, Scholastic Inc.

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• The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

  Simone Elkeles

  Couple, School, Guy

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending I have ever experienced and probably will ever experience in literature, movies, or even television. I am crying so hard at the end, partly for the characters, yes, but also because Nikki actually teaches this book to children. I cannot imagine why anyone would want to expose impressionable teenagers to such a horrible ending. Why not just tell high school students that their struggle to improve themselves is all for nothing?

  Matthew Quick

  Children, Teenager, Struggle

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• I don't think anyone aims to be typical, really. Most people even vow to themselves some time in high school or college not to be typical. But still, they just kind of loop back to it somehow. Like the circular rails of a train at an amusement park, the scripts we know offer a brand of security, of predictability, of safety for us. But the problem is, they only take us where we've already been. They loop us back to places where everyone can easily go, not necessarily where we were made to go. Living a different kind of life takes some guts and grit and a new way of seeing things.

  Bob Goff

  School, College, Thinking

  Bob Goff (2012). “Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World”, p.207, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

  Sara Zarr

  School, Parent, Robots

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.83, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Emma and I had both died twice, and for me, that second one actually stuck. Now I was a "resurrected American," better known, in colloquial terms, as life-challenged. Or undead. Or the living dead. But I'm not a zombie. I'm just a little less alive than your average high school junior.

  Rachel Vincent

  School, Average, Zombie

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• High school popularity is so fickle.

  Kathy Reichs

  School, Fickle, Popularity

  Kathy Reichs (2013). “Code: A Virals Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• Pretty much everyone hates high school. It's a measure of your humanity, I suspect. If you enjoyed high school, you were probably a psychopath or a cheerleader. Or possibly both. Those things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. I've tried to block out the memory of my high school years, but no matter how hard you try, it's always with you, like an unwanted hitchhiker. Or herpes. I assume.

  Jenny Lawson

  Memories, Hate, Block

  Jenny Lawson (2012). “Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)”, p.43, Pan Macmillan

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• There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, School, Ideas

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• Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
  We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
  But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  School, Experience, Wages

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

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• When I was in high school I used to sit by myself in the cafeteria - not necessarily by choice - but I thought it was funny to talk to people that weren't there.

  Zach Galifianakis

  School, People, Choices

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

  Vanessa Bayer

  Women, School, People

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• If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

  Mindy Kaling

  Hilarious, Stars, Kids

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.48, Three Rivers Press

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• What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inspiring, Stars, School

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.31, Crown/Archetype

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• Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Funny, Children

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• My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war.

  Katha Pollitt

  Daughter, Block, War

  Katha Pollitt (2007). “Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time”, p.46, Random House

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• Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

  Saul Bellow

  School, Politics, Firsts

  "The Portable Curmudgeon". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 219, 1987.

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• I haven't personally experienced bullying, but when I was in high school, I had a best friend who became a bully. I took a stand and took it upon myself to separate from her. I couldn't be associated with her because it wasn't the type of person I wanted to be.

  Amber Riley

  Best Friend, Bullying, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In 1971, Bossier City, Louisiana, there was a teenage girl who was pregnant with her second child. She was a high school dropout and a single mom, but somehow she managed to make a better life for herself and her children. She encouraged her kids to be creative, to work hard and to do something special. That girl is my mother and she's here tonight. And I just want to say, I love you, Mom. Thank you for teaching me to dream.

  Jared Leto

  Inspiring, Girl, Mom

  "The 10 most powerful celebrity speeches of 2014" by Leanne Bayley, www.glamourmagazine.co.uk. September 26, 2014.

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• I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their plight. I worked in a factory in high school. The poor folk who lay out the hard bread to see a game. That's where my heart lies. The rich don't need heroes.

  Leon Wagner

  Baseball, Lying, Hero

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• I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had principles and logic ... [rather than dealing with a] messy thing called life. It just wasn't organized, and I wanted to stick with the nice pristine sciences of chemistry and physics, where everything made sense. I wish I had learned sooner that biology could be fun as well.

  Francis Collins

  Appreciation, Fun, Nice

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• Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

  Xavier Becerra

  Children, Home, School

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