“I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.” HappensSchoolGirlTeamHigh SchoolSoccerThings To DoCool ThingsSoccer Team Author:Kate Voegele
“I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.” YearsTwoHardHappensSchoolMotherNextFatherBrotherLessonsMetsMarriedHigh SchoolDiedGirlfriendMy BrotherTwo YearsLife LessonPregnantNext YearMy GirlfriendSophomoreMother DiedHard LessonsSophomore Year Book:I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is Source: I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is
“A lot of the turning points happen in high school and in college, and it defines a lot of how you see the world and how you decide to defend yourself from the world. Some people - their defense mechanism is, I'm really smart or I'm sexy or I'm the leader. And other people - they hide or they make jokes.” PeopleWorldHappensSchoolLeaderCollegeSmartJokesHigh SchoolSexyDefenseMechanismTurning PointsReally SmartDefense Mechanisms Author:Judd Apatow
“In high school ethics they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much "if it happens, it happens."” IfsSaidHappensSchoolEthicsHigh SchoolActressesQualifiedClassmates Author:Amanda Schull
“Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.” KnowsWayHardHappensSchoolHigh SchoolCoachesSwings Author:Prince Fielder
“I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.” StillsMightHappensSchoolWalksWalkingHigh SchoolToughIndianapolis Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“What happens in our lives is not really anybody's fault but our own... When I was in high school, I was in an atheist crowd, and it was the consensus that religion was a crutch.” HappensSchoolLife IsOur LivesHigh SchoolFaultsAtheistCrowdsConsensusCrutches Author:Gillian Anderson
“What happens when you get hurt? Take that kid at Kentucky, Nerlens Noel, who could have turned pro after high school.Who knows what's going to happen? How the operation is going to go? The only thing I do know is that he would have been a top pick in the draft last year, and he'd have millions of dollars in the bank.” KnowsYearsHas BeensHappensKidsSchoolLastsHurtMillionsPicksHigh SchoolDollarsOperationsLast YearKentuckyAfter High SchoolNoelLife After High School Author:Sonny Vaccaro
“I want the younger kids, the basketball players in high school and college to hear from me and let them know that when you come to the league, this is what happens and this is how I feel as an NBA player. And it's not all peachy keen.” KnowsWantFeelsHappensKidsSchoolPlayerCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolLeagueNbaBasketball PlayerNba PlayerPeachy Author:Kevin Durant
“I went from a naive, regular girl in high school to trying to realize my dream. When my family moved from the East Coast to California, I thought in my little brain, "Wow, I'm going to Hollywood. I could actually make this happen." It was easier for me to think it's possible living in a place like Los Angeles than trying to do it in suburban Maryland.” ThinkingTryingLittlesDreamHappensSchoolGirlRealizingBrainEasierHigh SchoolMy FamilyHollywoodMovedEastCaliforniaLos AngelesWowCoastNaiveEast CoastMaryland Author:Joan Jett
“Capitalism would have never let me be a filmmaker, living in Flint, Michigan with a high school education. I was going to have to make that happen myself.” HappensSchoolHigh SchoolCapitalismLet MeFilmmakerMichiganSchool Education Author:Michael Moore
“My youngest brother had a wonderful schtick from some time in high school, through to graduating medicine. He had a card in his wallet that read, ‘If I am found with amnesia, please give me the following books to read …’ And it listed half a dozen books where he longed to recapture that first glorious sense of needing to find out ‘what happens next’ … the feeling that keeps you up half the night. The feeling that comes before the plot’s been learned.” IfsGivingFirstsBookFeelingsHappensSchoolNightNextFoundHalfWonderfulBrotherPleaseHigh SchoolGive MeMedicineFollowingCardsGloriousPlotDozenGraduatesAmnesiaWallets Author:Guy Gavriel Kay
“In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.” WorldWayYearsRealWholeHappensSchoolEarthNextStarsWaitingHoursHappenedMinutesWalkingHigh SchoolBlueLeavingWinterReal LifeWhole WorldSeniorPizzaBoltsSeventeenThe Next OneOne MinuteMilky WayAdriftDarkest HourSicilianStarlingsSeventeen Years OldHigh School Senior Book:Local Girls Source: Local Girls
“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.” ThinkingReasonHappensTodaySchoolThreeGamesCollegeBasketballHigh SchoolShots Author:Oscar Robertson
“Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don't want to lose to high school guys. I don't want to lose to no one.” WantHappensSchoolGuySportsLosesEventsHigh SchoolBest ThingsHockey Author:Gabe Jennings