High School Class Quotes

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  True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

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• My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although he graduated at the top of his high school class, he had no money for college. And he was set to work in a factory but, at the last minute, a kind person in the Trenton area arranged for him to receive a $50 scholarship and that was enough in those days for him to pay the tuition at a local college and buy one used suit. And that made the difference between his working in a factory and going to college.

  Samuel Alito

  Mother, Country, Teenager

  Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006

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• I think the mild Aspergers have always been there. You see, Asperger's diagnosis did not become common in the U.S. until the early '90s. And an Aspergers has more or less normal speech development and they've always been here, that hasn't changed. I can think back to when I was in high school, this is 40 years ago, I could name kids in my high school class and college class that, today, would be diagnosed as Aspergers.

  Temple Grandin

  School, Kids, College

  "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. January 20, 2006.

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• Matt looked up kids from his high school class. Only three were listed as dead, but a bunch were listed as missing/presumed dead. As a test, he looked us up, but none of our names were on any of the lists. And that's how we know we're alive this Memorial Day.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Memorial Day, School, Kids

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2008). “Life As We Knew It”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Senior, School, College

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear “no,” and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.

  Gavin de Becker

  School, Men, Law

  Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.228, Dell

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• I was lucky enough to have one of the first high school classes in the country.

  Walter Cronkite

  Country, School, Class

  Source: www.midtod.com

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