Juniors Quotes - Page 9

• Harvard gave me an education, but Junior Chamber gave me an education for life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Harvard, Chamber

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• We were taught to be dependable, responsible, the top of our classes at school, the most organized and efficient babysitters in town, the very miniature models of our hardworking farmer/nurse mother, a pair of junior Swiss Army knives, born to multitask.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, School, Army

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.63, A&C Black

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• I'll go gentle on him, ... I promise not to rough him up too much. I just think him saying stuff like that is just him. He's like the Junior Witter of America, he hasn't got a good word to say about anyone expect himself. Personality wise, he's very different to me, that's for sure.

  Ricky Hatton

  Wise, Motivation, Thinking

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• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  Mahesh Bhupathi

  Thinking, India, World

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• I got into acting my junior year of high school. We got a new hot drama teacher and I was like 'Alright, I'll try drama.'

  Miles Teller

  Teacher, Drama, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming themselves for promotion within the Bell corporation. Then he was suddenly heard to say: "No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company."

  Alan Turing

  New York, Powerful, Voice

  "Alan Turing: The Enigma". Book by Andrew Hodges, p. 251, 1983.

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• It's hard to find a negligee in my size. I wear a Junior Mister.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Size, Hard

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• I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

  John Corbett

  College, Class, Play

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• Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are-not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

  Arthur Caplan

  Fall, Kids, Eugenics

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• It's been a long four years for Junior Nation. I am happy for his fans and NASCAR. Now, let's celebrate this win and help our sport grow. I have thought that ever since we took all our eyes and undivided attention off of Dale Jr. and gave him some breathing room, he was able to be more himself and relax a bit. Some of that pressure left him. Today we just saw the 'Old Dale Jr.,' the one we've been looking for, for a long time. He is back.

  Kenny Wallace

  Sports, Eye, Winning

  "SPEED Quotes: Reaction to Earnhardt Jr.'s Breakthrough Win At Michigan". www.foxnews.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Hair, Average

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• England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• I have read that, on the average, the Japanese are getting taller, but at the moment they seem to be about the same height as American junior-high-school students, only with fewer guns.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.40, Ballantine Books

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• I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

  Dana Carvey

  Thinking, Lasts, Springsteen

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• When you look at guys who get recruited, most of the best athletes, they come from poor families. I don't forget. I was a junior looking through my mother's stuff and looked at her bank statement, and we had $30 in the bank.

  Eric Dickerson

  Mother, Athlete, Guy

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• There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

  Jeffrey Donovan

  School, Years, Junior Year

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• I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Mom, Friday, Brother

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• I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

  Alex Flinn

  People, Making Friends, Shy

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• I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

  David Cassidy

  School, Rock And Roll, Rocks

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

  Daniel Johnston

  Medicine, Wish, Matter

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2011.

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• I did volleyball, basketball, and track all through high school. And then I went to junior college and I stuck with track because I was good at shot put and discus. And then I got a full ride to Fresno State for their track program. Shot put was my main thing. I was the five-time All-American, and I set a couple records.

  Dot Jones

  Basketball, Volleyball, Couple

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• My junior year, I was in a play at school and five days before opening night, I still didn't know my lines. Opening night was a disaster. I was so embarrassed. The director made me work backstage for the rest of the performance.

  Katie Leclerc

  School, Night, Years

  "When I Was 17: Katie Leclerc" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2012.

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• My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

  Aaron Levie

  Moving, College, Two

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• On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

  Candace Parker

  Dad, School, Reality

  "Thanks, Dad, for Believing in Me Before I Did" by Candace Parker, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Junior high is so much worse than high school because at least in high school different is more accepted, celebrated actually: all the girls with blue hair and gothic Hello Kitty backpacks.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, School, Hair

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