“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.” WellsSchoolHousePartyRocksCollegeBandHigh SchoolTouringRock BandsTogas Author:Alessandro Nivola
“My dad never graduated high school. He was a printing salesman. We lived in a two-bedroom, one-bath house in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. We weren't rich - but we felt secure.” TwoSchoolHouseFeltRichDadHigh SchoolMy DadSecureParksBedroomBathsPrintingSalesmanMinnesota Author:Al Franken
“I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer for really cheap, and students are in there. So I met some people who rented a room. I just remember it being very dirty.” PeopleKnowsSchoolRememberHouseRoomsStudentsMetsSummerHigh SchoolDirtyFraternity Author:Spencer Grammer
“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
“A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School.” I CanSchoolYoungHouseVoiceChallengesWalksHigh School Author:Gene Wolfe
“I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)” FeelsLittlesHas BeensTodayActionSchoolLawTimeOrderCoursesHouseFeltEducationSadnessTeachingRocksSorrowHigh SchoolCourtPursueIslandsStayingTroopsIntegrationCompelledMonarchyInterferenceWilsonFirmnessUnlawfulRhode IslandLittle Rock Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“My brother was in high school and he had a garage band going, but no one would sing. They were covering a Hatebreed song at the time and I knew the words for it. My brother knew I knew the words, so he came inside the house and he's like 'Hey Mitch, come out here and sing'. I did it and after that I started a band with my older brother. That's how I got started.” SchoolSongHouseBrotherBandHigh SchoolHeyMy BrotherCoveringGarageOlder Brother Author:Mitch Lucker
“My father played in high school. My uncles played. From age five or six, I remember watching all the games. And I remember saying to my mom and dad even then that I was going to play in the NFL, and buy them a house and a car.” PlayAgeSchoolRememberFatherGamesHouseFiveCarMomDadSixHigh SchoolMy MomNflUnclesMom And Dad Author:Thomas Jones
“Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.” PeopleLooksSchoolHouseParentHigh SchoolCamerasStudiosUncomfortableBedroomDreamland Author:John Waters
“I'd written my first novel for adults, which was called Basic Eight and was set in a high school, and we were having a devil of a time selling it. It ended up in the hands of an editor of a children's publishing house, for which it was entirely inappropriate. She said, "Well, we can't publish this, but I think you should write something for children," which I thought was a really terrible idea.” ThinkingShouldWritingFirstsWellsChildrenSaidIdeasHandsSchoolHouseNovelWrittenTerribleHigh SchoolDevilAdultsEightSellingEditorsPublishingPublishInappropriatePublishing House Author:Daniel Handler
“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. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you.” IfsSchoolFilmFacesGuyFightingHouseHigh SchoolNuclearPainterFilm SchoolSubmarinesDropoutsElectricianSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:David Ayer
“I remember in the old days, when we were promoting a show, we'd be out taping flyers to high-school lockers. Now you just announce the show online, and it's a full house.” ShowsSchoolRememberHouseHigh SchoolOnlinePromotingOld DaysLockersFlyersFull House Author:Kerry King
“Back in high school I told my dad, "I'm going to have a computer someday." And he said that it cost as much as a house-the downpayment on a house. And I said, "Well, I'll live in an apartment."” WellsSaidSchoolHouseDadCostComputerHigh SchoolMy DadSomedayApartment Author:Steve Wozniak
“I was in a Led Zeppelin cover band in high school, and my highlight was playing "Misty Mountain Hop" at a coffee house in Wayne, Pennsylvania. I wasn't allowed to play any instruments; I could only be the singer because I was a girl.” PlaySchoolGirlHouseBandMountainHigh SchoolInstrumentsCoffeeSingersHopsWayneHighlightsPennsylvaniaZeppelinsMistyCoffee HousesMisty Mountains Author:Victoria Legrand
“I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.” SchoolHouseLevelsHigh SchoolChessBugsTournamentsFinishingHigh Level Author:Paul Banks
“There wasn't a funeral per se. I buried [Gilda Radner] 3 miles from her house that she had bought just shortly before we met. It was an old house, old colonial house, 1734. And there were just a few friends at the funeral, a nonsectarian cemetery. And an old friend of hers from junior high school or high school was the rabbi in town, and he performed the service.” SchoolHouseMetsHigh SchoolTownsMilesBuriedFuneralJuniorsOld FriendsCemeteryJunior HighRabbiFew FriendsOld HousesHigh School Junior Author:Gene Wilder
“I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're sort of the opposite of my book. And I think that so many people want to write a book that sort of memorializes their place in history. And I wanted to write something for all of the women who are like me. I grew up in upstate New York, I graduated high school with 70 other people and didn't ever know that anything like this would have really been an option for me. So I wanted other young women — and men — to know that just being you is plenty.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingBookSchoolHouseHigh SchoolMen And WomenPlentyYoung Women Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.” WaySchoolHouseHigh SchoolMy Best FriendHippieCommunes Author:Alanis Morissette
“I grew up in Synagogue in the boys' choir. We didn't listen to music in the house; only at temple. Then I went to a mostly African American high school on the South Side of Chicago and joined a gospel choir.” SchoolHouseSidesBoysGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolSouthAfrican AmericanTemplesChicagoListening To MusicChoirSynagogue Author:Mandy Patinkin
“I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.” PersonsRunningSchoolHouseTermMomDadNormalHigh SchoolMovedYour MomObeyingMom And DadRunning Free Author:Iggy Pop
“We aren't in high school. We aren't really in our families and we aren't in our houses. Those are the places we grew up and the times we spent together, but they aren't us. If think they are, then we're lost, because times end and places are lost. We aren't any place or any time . . . We are everywhere.” IfsThinkingEndsSchoolTogetherHouseLostGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolOur Family Book:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection
“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get nice house.” MomentsSchoolJobsLife IsHouseNiceCollegeHigh SchoolTownsGood JobMargo Roth SpiegelmanNice House Author:Ellen Hopkins
“And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.” MomentsKidsSchoolJobsLife IsHouseNiceCollegeHigh SchoolTownsGood JobMargo Roth SpiegelmanNice House Book:Paper Towns Source: Paper Towns
“During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.” LongSaidImportantSchoolJobsRememberFatherHousePresidentSubjectsDadHigh SchoolArgumentSoleFathers DayChelseaImportant Jobs Author:William J. Clinton
“It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.” IfsWellsLongMadeSaidShowsSchoolHouseInterestRealizingTeachFiveMinutesReadyMarriedHigh SchoolNervousCooksKitchenIf I CouldTake MeHoneyFive MinutesMamaSophomore Author:Paula Deen