High School Quotes - Page 29

• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

  Oliver North

  Country, Veterans Day, Teacher

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• I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Cheating, Believe

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• The millions of dollars which we devote every year to high-school education are, for the most part, money spent for the retarding of intelligence, the discouragement of efficiency, the stunting of character.

  Bernard Iddings Bell

  School, Character, Years

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• Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.

  Charles E. McKenzie

  Friday, Monday, School

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• Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Growing Up, Nice

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• Usually the bullies are the most insecure. I was bullied and it's hard, you feel like high schools never going to be over. Its four years of your life and you just have to remember the person picking on you has their own problems and their own issues. And you're going to be ok.

  Megan Fox

  Bullying, School, Insecure

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• My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

  Loni Anderson

  Daughter, Mother, Teacher

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• Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young language teacher from Roosevelt.

  Peter Agre

  Teacher, Travel, School

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• I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, Player

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• I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Team, School

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• I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, Play

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• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Sports, School

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• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, School, College

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• We have been friends together
  In sunshine and in shade.

  Caroline Norton

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1853). “The Undying One: And Other Poems”, p.209

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• You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.

  Ezra Koenig

  School, College, Ties

  "Vampire Weekend: An ivy league hero is something to be…". Interview with Gareth Grundy, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2010.

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• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

  Tony Visconti

  Father, School, College

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• I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

  Anderson Cooper

  Couple, School, Kids

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• Hollywood is like high school, there are always going to be people who hate you and people who like you. When you're a teen, [that's tough] because you're hyper-aware of what other people are gonna say and think. But neither defines who you are as a person or how successful you are unless you let them.

  Debby Ryan

  Hate, School, Successful

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• I played Little League and in high school. I played more over the years whenever there was a pick-up game... usually softball.

  Matthew Modine

  Funny, Softball, School

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• A high school student shouldn't smoke cigarettes. You can't comfort someone with money either. And fooling around with someone's feelings...Trying out someone when you're not even interested. That's something you deserve to get hit for.

  Cheon Eunbi

  Drama, School, Feelings

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• A Minneapolis, Minnesota high school teacher hung this sign under the clock in her classroom. "Time will pass...Will you?"

  James E. Myers

  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

  Johnny Gray

  Sports, School, Hockey

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• My interest in chemistry was started by reading Robert Kennedy Duncan's popular books while a high school student in Des Moines, Iowa, so that after some delay when it was possible for me to go to college I had definitely decided to specialize in chemistry.

  Wallace Carothers

  Book, Reading, School

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• [At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  School, Knowledge, Learning

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• I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiration, School, Boys

  "Kofi Annan discusses Bolton, scandal, Iraq". Interview with Barbara Slavin, www.usatoday.com. May 15, 2005.

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