High School Quotes - Page 23

• It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Notebook, Morning, Hate

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.3, Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Attitude, School, Hair

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.4, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

  Deb Caletti

  School, Kind, Should

  4 Copy quote

• NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree that newspapers should only be able to publish government-approved material. Almost one out of five said people should not be allowed to voice unpopular opinions..This is the first generation after September 11th, who discovered news during a 'watch what you say' administration...George W. Bush once asked, 'is our children learning.' No, they isn't. A better question would be, 'is our teacher's teaching?

  Bill Maher

  Teacher, Children, Teaching

  16 Copy quote

• I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.

  David Sedaris

  Girl, Grief, School

  6 Copy quote

• When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school.

  Carlton Mellick III

  School, Mean, Back When

  4 Copy quote

• I just thought of a great theory that explains everything. When I went to that party, I was abducted by aliens. They have created a fake Earth and fake high school to study me and my reactions. This certainly explains cafeteria food.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Party, School, Fake

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.42, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gee, You're so Beautiful That It's Starting to Rain Oh, Marcia, I want your long blonde beauty to be taught in high school, so kids will learn that God lives like music in the skin and sounds like a sunshine harpsicord. I want high school report cards to look like this: Playing with Gentle Glass Things A Computer Magic A Writing Letters to Those You Love A Finding out about Fish A Marcia's Long Blonde Beauty A+!

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Rain, Writing

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

  Meg Cabot

  Liars, School, Best Years Of Your Life

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Crowning Glory”, p.308, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fashion, Real, School

  4 Copy quote

• By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy.

  Richelle Mead

  Crazy, School, Years

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.188, Penguin

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I paused for a light at Hamilton and TWlfth and noticed the Nissan was running rough at idle. Two blocks later it backfired and stalled. I coaxed it into the center of the city. Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! Ffft, ffft, ffft, KAPOW! A Trans Am pulled up next to me at a light. The Trans Am was filled with high school kids. One of them stuck his head out of the passenger-side window. "Hey lady," he said. "Sounds like you got a fartmobile." I flipped him an Italian goodwill gesture and pulled the ball cap low on my forehead. (Three to get Deadly)

  Janet Evanovich

  Running, Block, School

  5 Copy quote

• Sometimes I think high school is one long hazy activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  School, Thinking, Long

  5 Copy quote

• Oh, so you see some chick in baggy jeans and a hoodie, and you just have to have her so bad, you decide to repeat high school, just to get her?" "Sounds about right." He laughs.

  Alyson Noel

  School, Jeans, Laughing

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

  Bill Maher

  School, Diploma, Birth

  29 Copy quote

• When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more miraculous than a high school boy.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Girl, School, Boys

  4 Copy quote

• I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman in the high school of your choice-sorry, kids, but what I mean is they were loyal, devoted, honest, and too easily screwed by bastards like me and my brother. I felt like the dee-jay of your choice.

  Roger Zelazny

  Brother, Sorry, School

  4 Copy quote

• We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.

  Dave Barry

  School, Ignorance, Men

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.8, Ballantine Books

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Girl, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

  Stephen King

  Stars, Couple, School

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.29, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is my belief that people who speak of high school with a sugary fondness are bluffing away early-onset Alzheimer's.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Alzheimer's, People

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.119, Portobello Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

  John Green

  Time, School, Winter

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.18, A&C Black

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• High school is neither a democracy nor a dictatorship - nor, contrary to popular belief, an anarchic state. High school is a divine-right monarchy. And when the queen goes on vacation, things change.

  John Green

  Funny, Senior, Queens

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.489, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Teacher, Growing Up, Fun

  5 Copy quote

• She would be a mentor and an inspiration to girls like herself, the quiet ones who'd sleepwalked their way through high school, knowing nothing except that they couldn't possibly be happy with any of the choices the world seemed to be offering them.

  Tom Perrotta

  Life, Girl, Inspiration

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source