High School Quotes

When I started running cross-country and track in high school, literally every race was a failure.

~ Chad Hurley

You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.

~ Owen Wilson

As a young boy, I was taught in high school that hacking was cool.

~ Kevin Mitnick

People in high school either feel like they're with the cool kids in a clique, or they're isolated - there's no in-between.

~ Ross Butler

I loved animation and cartoons, even when it was not cool when you were in high school. I raced home to see the Bugs Bunny cartoons.

~ John Lasseter

When I entered high school I was an A-student, but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes. I wanted to hang out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student, but I didn't care. I was getting the high fives and the low fives and the pats on the back. I was cool.

~ Ben Carson

I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.

~ Matthew Perry

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

~ Peyton Manning

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

~ Erma Bombeck

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

~ Christina Aguilera

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

~ Ruben Hinojosa

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

~ Susumu Tonegawa

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

~ Tommy Caldwell

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.

~ Dennis L. Mckiernan

Being famous is just like being in high school. But I'm not interested in being the cheerleader. I'm not interested in being Gwen Stefani. She's the cheerleader, and I'm out in the smoker shed.

~ Courtney Love

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

~ Craig Ferguson

I took Spanish in high school and I didn't do too well in it. My Spanish teacher told me not to go on with Spanish anymore, so I was discouraged a little bit.

~ Tyler Posey

I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.

~ Jack Canfield

At high school, instead of the weekly essay, I would write a poem, and the teacher accepted that. The impulse was one of laziness, I'm certain. Poems were shorter than essays.

~ Paul Muldoon

I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A.

~ Kevin Mitnick

In high school, I once sang 'Let's Get It On' and 'Brown Sugar' with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher.

~ Chris Pine

My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts.

~ John Lasseter

I was a per diem floater in the same junior high school I went to. I sat in the office and made $42.50 a day, and whenever a teacher was absent, I'd substitute. I taught everything from English to auto shop.

~ Billy Crystal

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

~ Frank Mccourt

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

I had a teacher senior year in high school. He was a theater teacher, and he basically was a little bit like 'High School Musical.' He kind of encouraged the jocks to get involved with the plays. I did it as kind of a senior year lark.

~ D. B. Sweeney

When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.

~ Dwight Yoakam

I worked as a secretary, a waitress and a dance teacher - all in high school.

~ Jennie Garth

I went to a Catholic high school and it seemed like every time I drew something for a class project, it either got thrown away by the teacher or something.

~ Mike Judge

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.

~ Israel Horovitz

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

~ Melissa Rauch

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

~ Dan Savage

When I was in high school, I listened to a lot of death metal bands.

~ Amy Lee

I took high school very casually. There was Teen Town, chess, tennis, boxing, running. Lots of things going on.

~ Robert Mundell

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

~ Adora Svitak

For a time in high school, I had glasses, braces, and a cast. I like to call this look 'no date for homecoming.'

~ Lauren Graham

I went to an all-girls school for part of high school, and the idea of boys was amazing to me; like, all I ever wanted to do was kiss boys and be around boys.

~ Alexandra Daddario

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

~ Jennifer Damiano

I still have a lot of the stories I wrote in high school. Hand wrote... a number of them are in purple ink, rendering them illegible, a fact we should probably be forever thankful for.

~ Shiloh Walker

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.

~ Bill Viola