High School Quotes - Page 27

• I daydream about a high school where everybody plays the harmonica: the students, the teachers, the principal, the janitor and the cook in the cafeteria.

  Richard Brautigan

  Teacher, School, Play

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• Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

  Stephen King

  School, Administration, Skirts

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

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• Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Grateful, School

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.356, Bantam

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• high school guys only appear hot to high school girls. its something to do with the fluorescent lighting in the classrooms, i think. They're actually really skinny and spotty, and they have giant feet

  Rainbow Rowell

  Girl, School, Thinking

  Rainbow Rowell (2011). “Attachments”, p.37, Hachette UK

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• When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

  John Scalzi

  Love, Teenager, Obvious

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.250, Macmillan

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• The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".

  Maggie Stiefvater

  School, Blue, Numbers

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.86, Scholastic Inc.

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• Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Nice, School

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• 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.

  Chris Colfer

  School, Ideas, Scar

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• 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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• 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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