Top 1200 Graduating High School Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

In Hawaii, after somebody introduces themselves, the next question is, 'What high school did you go to?' From there, it's either 'Oh, OK, it's cool, I know some family,' or it's trash-talking to the max, like 'my school is better than your school.' This is how it kind of is back there.

I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there.

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

By high school, I was putting the music for the services together and teaching Sunday school to everybody's kids.

In primary school I was terrible. I don't think I was particularly well behaved in high school, but I started to apply myself.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

I had an all right high school, even though I hated school. I wasn't massively popular, but I was okay. But I wouldn't want to do it again.

I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.

That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school. I had the middle part with a swoop, all that. It was the late ’90s!

We can't just go, like, oh that'd be cool then not do it. So it's one of those weird things. You gain all these things on your journey. You get smarter. It's interesting how you are who you are in high school in a lot of ways. When I look at my friends, I feel no different about them than I did when I was in high school. I mean that in a great way. They've taken on a micro scale what they were doing and making it bigger.

I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.

I was president of the schools in junior high and high school, got a scholarship to New York University, played a little basketball, and was a celebrity.

I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.

Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.

I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I was a child actor and then didn't do it through junior high and high school, then started up again in my late teens doing 'Young and the Restless.' Dabbled with school, went back to college, played around. I think I was doing Pleasantville at 23.

All my life - middle school, high school - I've always been worried what are people going to think.

I worked while in high school and college so that I could pay for school. I also had loans.

In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.

As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately my high school offered a new course in B&W photography, so I opted for that instead of art, towards which I had an aversion. Composition is something that comes pretty naturally to me and I appreciate ordered chaos: the photo class turned out to be fun.

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.

I was teased up until high school about my hair, being short, my high pitched voice, and just anything you can think of.

Though [John] Hughes did provide for us, if we wanted, to go to a local high school and try to blend in. Michael [Hall] and Molly [Ringwald ] already had school to go to with their tutors. Ally [Sheedy] wanted nothing to do with high school. She said, "I remember it fine. I don't want to go back." Which is great. So Emilio [Estevez] and I went. And Emilio lasted a couple hours because people recognized him from The Outsiders that had already been out, so his cover was blown.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

All of my stories, they don't come from my high school experience, but they're definitely based on things that happened to me in high school, or things that happened to friends of mine, or things that I wish had happened to me.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

I dropped out of high school. I really had no interest in doing any school work whatsoever.

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

I always thought that a prep school was what some people went to after high school to prepare themselves for college.

The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.

I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

I read recently that all of us can be defined in adult life by the way others perceived us in high school. I know [people] who had the popular, good-looking path in high school; they tend not to do so well. It was a little bit too easy for them, where for those of us who struggled in every sense, perhaps our determination and self-reliance and discipline were reinforced by that.

With high definition TV, everything looks bigger and wider. Kind of like going to your 25th high school reunion.

My dad was a high school coach for 30-plus years in North Carolina, and he was inducted into the North Carolina High School Coaches Hall of Fame. He's the best coach I've known, in every way, all the way around - relationships, motivation, going the extra mile, always putting his kids first and foremost.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

I liked school except for having to get up early and, of course, high school drama!

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

My mother always told me that came first. I started modeling in 11th grade and it was something that I did after school and on the weekends. School is so important and modeling should be treated as an extracurricular activity as opposed to a career until you graduate high school.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

I graduated high school a year early and moved to Los Angeles to go to acting school, which is hilarious.

I've been on a state of high alert since high school. I didn't need 9/11 to remind me that we live on a ball of flame.

I was a dreamer when I was at high school and even primary school. I used to dream about doing adventurous things.

I went to Harvard High because it was a great school. That it happened to be a military school was just a part of it. I gained from the discipline there.

I was in theater when I was in elementary, middle school and high school. I didn't know it would be an actual profession for me. I didn't think of it as a reality.

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

I started high school in L.A., but I went to public school in New York.

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.

I remember running at school sports day, and I would win everything, but I wasn't a super athlete or a superstar at high school.