“I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.” MenMadeIdeasWantedSchoolFallInterestingGrowing UpGrowingHappenedHigh SchoolSickFalling In LoveRangeHatedSweetheartInteresting Man Author:Charlotte Arnold
“Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.” PlaySchoolGrowingShareHigh SchoolCompetitionWorkersImmigrationImmigrantsShrinkingDropoutsSkilled WorkersSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Jared Bernstein
“Growing up I was very into art. In high school I was into the surrealists and impressionists, and I loved Klimt. In '91 or '92 I saw one of those Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled billboards. I was just really arrested by it. It was kind of my first foray into contemporary art. It was a turning point for me as to what art could be and what it meant and the impact it could have.” FirstsKindArtSchoolGrowing UpSawsGrowingHigh SchoolImpactContemporaryArrestedTurning PointsContemporary ArtBillboardsSurrealistImpressionistsTorres Author:Chloe Sevigny
“I played football growing up in junior high and high school.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingFootballHigh SchoolJuniorsJunior High Author:Ryan Merriman
“I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.” PeopleMadeKidsSchoolFunGrowing UpGrowingFitHigh School Author:Magda Apanowicz
“I grew up in a remarkable home, the middle of seven children. My parents raised us well. They loved us well. We laughed hard growing up. But being the middle child, I couldn't figure out where I fit in the home, whether I was the youngest of the older three or the oldest of the younger three. When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some bad decisions about who I hung out with, I dropped out of high school, got kicked out of the house.” KnowsWellsChildrenMadeHardHomeSchoolYoungThreeHouseParentDecisionGrowing UpGrowingMiddleFiguresGrewFitGrew UpHigh SchoolRaisedSevenDesperateRemarkableLaughedHungBad DecisionMiddle Child Author:Tullian Tchividjian
“I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolBaseball Author:Finn Wittrock
“I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.” SometimesSchoolFoundParentGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolLet MeSurpriseFamiliarAuditionsMovie Sets Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I didn't go to high school, I didn't go to college, I didn't have women's studies. All of my feminist ideals and education have been built around art and my friends and community. And so it's still growing.” Has BeensArtStillsSchoolCommunityStudyGrowingCollegeHigh SchoolMy FriendsBuiltIdealsFeminist Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I played soccer growing up, and then high school came along and the football coach came out one day and was like, 'Hey, do you want to kick for us?' I was like, 'Sure, I'll come out and kick one day.' I got moved up to varsity and that's how the story began.” WantStoriesSchoolGrowing UpGrowingFootballOne DayHigh SchoolMovedCoachesHeySoccerNflKicksFootball Coach Author:Kyle Brindza
“Growing up, I was a typical high school kid when YouTube first came out, and I was just watching a whole lot of videos of guys in the league I'm playing with now, guys that aren't in the league, and guys that came before me, just watching the moves that they do, and going out in my backyard and trying them. I did it almost every single day. And I didn't do any crazy dribbling drills or any two-ball dribbling drills. I'm really not good at two-ball dribbling. Nah, never did that. I just went out and tried the moves that I saw.” TryingFirstsTwoWholeKidsSchoolMovingGuyGrowing UpSawsGrowingCrazyHigh SchoolBallsVideoLeagueGoing OutTypicalYoutubeBackyardsDrills Author:Kyrie Irving
“Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingRocksBandHigh SchoolPopsSingersBroadwayLegit Author:Stark Sands
“I've always been vertically challenged. I never grew at all until my junior year of high school-if you call that growing.” IfsYearsSchoolGrowingGrewHigh SchoolJuniorsJunior YearJunior Year Of High School Author:Chris Paul
“Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingSonBrotherHigh SchoolEnglandFormerMy BrotherPatriotSeniorBostonNew EnglandHigh School SeniorNew England Patriots Author:Matt Hasselbeck
“I learned this one growing up in Texas and, subsequently, living in Los Angeles: always use the 'usted' form when speaking to a Spanish official. Mexican border patrol cops don't like it when you call them 'amigo,' give them a hardy pat on the back, slip a $20 in their pocket. No bueno, it doesn't fly. By the way, those of you not laughing at that obviously took French in high school, and that was a gay choice.” WayGivingUseSchoolFormChoicesLaughingGrowing UpGrowingGayHigh SchoolBordersOfficialsPocketsLos AngelesTexasSlipsCopMexicanHardyBorder PatrolMexican Border Author:Iliza Shlesinger
“I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingFansHigh SchoolTomsPettySpringsteen Author:Bryan Hayes
“I played sports growing up in high school.” SchoolSportsGrowing UpGrowingHigh School Author:Erin Heatherton
“However, it [singing] wasn't until halfway through high school that it dawned on me that singing wasn't just a hobby, it was something I had a growing need for in my life, and that was about when I adopted the neglected guitar I found under our piano and started singing about all the things I could never say.” NeedsSchoolFoundGrowingSingingHigh SchoolGuitarPianoHobbiesAdoptedHalfwayNeglected Author:Kina Grannis
“I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingHigh School Author:Vanessa Ray
“I think I would have been a lot more miserable and discovered a lot less of things I liked if I hadn't had LiveJournal in high school. I think it's interesting how blogging seems to be shaping a new generation of writers. I feel like growing up with the Internet/blogging/other structures seems to be a reason for the similarities people see in Tao Lin's writing and other young writers, rather than direct.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsWritingHas BeensReasonSeemsSchoolYoungInterestingGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsInternetHigh SchoolDirectStructureMiserableTaoSimilarityBloggingNew GenerationYoung Writers Author:Marie Calloway
“Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!” IfsI CanSchoolDealsClassGrowing UpTeacherGrowingImagineHigh SchoolAnnoyingFourteenAnnoying Things Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“My Mom played violin and piano when she was growing up and she insisted, and I don't know if you can imagine how uncool it is to play the violin when you're eight and ten years old, but I told my Mom that I would quit every day until I went to high school and I met these other gentlemen who would become Yellowcard, and my friends, and I really fell in love with music and it wasn't just classical music, just submerged in the arts in the school I was in.” IfsKnowsYearsArtPlaySchoolGrowing UpGrowingImagineMomMetsTenHigh SchoolMy FriendsMy MomEightQuittingPianoGentlemanClassical MusicViolinSubmergedUncool Author:Sean Mackin
“I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".” ThinkingLooksSchoolRememberGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolFatsMessPoundsPictures Of Myself Author:Viola Davis
“Beauty is a complex theme, for sure. We all have a different concept and opinion regarding it, but we all like to look at things that are aesthetically pleasing. I had the typical high school experience, where you question what is beauty, and you're comparing yourself to others, it was just part of growing up.” LooksDifferentSchoolOpinionGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolConceptsComplexesCompareThemeTypicalComparing YourselfComparing Yourself To OthersSchool Experience Author:Elle Fanning
“It was fun to play that surreal high school life [in Jawbreaker]. I was a huge fan of the movie Heathers. But I think at the time - you know, when the movie was released, it was a very limited release, and it didn't do very well at the box office. And I love the fact that it has found legs and that the audience has kept growing and growing over the years.” ThinkingKnowsYearsWellsPlayFactsSchoolFoundFunAudienceGrowingFansHugeOfficeHigh SchoolBoxesLegsReleaseSurrealBox OfficeSchool LifeHeathers Author:Julie Benz
“I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.” WorldI CanEndsCountryTodaySchoolYoungNumbersGrowing UpGrowingStudentsTaughtHigh SchoolRadicalGradesDisappointedParts Of LifeLeftistsUnpreparedYoung Students Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.” SchoolSportsGrowing UpGrowingPlayerBasketballHigh SchoolMy FavoriteThis DayBasketball PlayerSwimmerFavorite Sports Author:Ryan Lochte
“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.” FirstsKindSeemsWould BeSchoolLife IsFunInterestGrowing UpTeacherGrowingTeachingSubjectsBecomingLosingHigh SchoolDumbDullBe KindBecoming MoreLosing Interest Author:Beatrice Sparks
“I always wanted to be grown up. When I was little I couldn’t wait to be a teenager and go to high school. When I got there I wanted to be done with it, wanted to get out into the world, the real one, and live in it. The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.” WorldMeanLittlesRealDoneWantedSchoolWaitingRealizingGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolTeenagerReal Ones Author:Elizabeth Scott
“In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.” IfsShouldYearsChildrenSchoolMotherReadingHoursSunGrowingMagicSkyHigherBedMountainSummerHigh SchoolShould HaveSkinsLaysRoseCopiesNow And ThenSeniorSheetsSectionsJuniorsSuggestingEleanorChild RearingSenior Year Book:Home Safe: A Novel Source: Home Safe: A Novel
“I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered another career because I wouldn't have been alone in my room, making up other characters for myself. I definitely had growing pains. The popular kids didn't want anything to do with the girl who was starting the drama club.” IfsWantHas BeensReasonCharacterKidsSchoolPainGirlRoomsCareersGrowingDramaHigh SchoolStartingClubsActressesMaking UpGrowing PainsDrama Club Author:Ginnifer Goodwin