“As a kid I couldn't afford any Jordans, so I didn't get my first pair until my last year of high school. They were Air Jordan 9s.” YearsFirstsKidsSchoolLastsAirHigh SchoolPairsLast YearJordan Author:Carmelo Anthony
“If i wouldn't have done comedy, I would have been a teacher. I was really good when I took an exploratory teaching class in high school, at getting kids' attention, and delivering lesson plans. Though my principal even told me that this was what I was meant to do. And that being a big-mouth comedian was a waste of time.” IfsHas BeensDoneBigsKidsSchoolAttentionClassComedyTeacherPlansTeachingLessonsWasteMouthsHigh SchoolComedianWasting TimePrincipalDelivering Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I've been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications - the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.” KidsSchoolPoliticalCollegeHigh SchoolNewspapersCartoonPublicationYearbookPolitical Cartoons Author:Bill Watterson
“I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.” ThinkingWorldMayHomeKidsAbleSchoolThis WorldCollegeHabitHigh SchoolAbsolutesSchoolingGoing To College Author:Mark Cuban
“I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers, but they can't spell. Because spell-check won't [help] you if you don't know through from threw. I told them, "If you can read in the 21st century, you own the world." Because you learn to write from reading.” IfsKnowsWorldWritingHelpingKidsSchoolReadingCenturyCoupleComputerHigh SchoolChecksCanadaSpells21st CenturySeminarsSpell Check Author:Stephen King
“The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop to fame and fortune. I want girls in this country to think education is the coolest, most important thing they could ever do in their lives.” ThinkingWantImportantCountryKidsSchoolGirlFameHigh SchoolImportant ThingsFortuneObstaclesPitsBiggest ObstaclesI Want A Girl Author:Michelle Obama
“In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!” ProblemKidsSchoolHigh SchoolIncreaseInequalityPrimariesQuartersSecondary Education Author:Milton Friedman
“Do you remember that kid that had sex with his high school teacher? I was reading online that he died today. He died from hi-fiveing.” HumorKidsTodaySchoolFunnyRememberReadingSexTeacherHigh SchoolDiedOnlineSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Zach Galifianakis
“Before High School Musical, I wanted to be a nitty-gritty actress. And High School Musical came along, and, I was like, "Oh my God, fun!" But the more we did it, the more prude I became.... When I am around kids and they come up to me, of course I am going to act a certain way, but at the end of the day, I'm doing this for myself. I'm going to be doing movies kids can't watch.” WayEndsKidsWantedSchoolCertainCoursesFunWatchesHigh SchoolMusicalCome UpActressesThe End Of The DayPrudesHigh School Musical Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“I always felt like I was challenged, I was never satisfied, and I looked forward to the challenge. From studying high school players to studying kids in college, I always studied the competition, at my position in particular, to make sure I set the standard.” KidsSchoolFeltChallengesStudyPlayerPositionCollegeParticularStandardsHigh SchoolCompetitionSatisfied Author:Derrick Brooks
“Some kids, for some reason, it just doesn't click in the classroom as they need it to. We have college coaches talk to them, former high school athletes, motivational speakers, teachers, principals.” NeedsReasonKidsSchoolTeacherCollegeHigh SchoolAthleteCoachesFormerClassroomSpeakersPrincipalClicksAthlete MotivationalMotivational Speakers Author:John Towner Williams
“I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.” FactsKidsSchoolParentStudentsHigh SchoolEducatedHeightJust OneHamilton Author:Ryan White
“The guys that I played with, Hollis Dixon and the Keynotes - just about all the great musicians from Muscle Shoals.We played fraternity parties and kids' dances. They were called "lead outs" for kids in high school. We played wherever we could - in the down time when you weren't recording, people had to make money.” PeopleKidsSchoolGuyPartyMusicianHigh SchoolMaking MoneyMusclesGreat MusicFraternityGreat MusicianDown Time Author:Donnie Fritts
“Duke is in extremely competitive environment. In my high school, I think I got one B my whole four years. I was used to being the smartest kid in every class I was in, and then I went to Duke and suddenly I was the dumbest kid in every class. Everybody there is up to something.” ThinkingYearsWholeKidsSchoolUsedClassEnvironmentFourHigh SchoolFour YearsDukes Author:Mike Posner
“When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started singing and I found that helped, so I would go in the talent show every year. It was always some female singer that would go up there and blast out some Celine Dion classic and just blow me away.” YearsShowsKidsSchoolFoundTalentSingingHigh SchoolFemaleLuckBlowSingersClassicBlastTalent ShowCelineFemale Singers Author:Paolo Nutini
“It's hard sometimes when you're in a regular high school, you just feel like the odd kid out. The great thing about going to an art school [is] it's kind of like it's all the odd kids. It's all the kids that don't fit in at their regular schools, because you're into something and excited about something that other kids really aren't into. When you go to art school, everybody's kind of on the same page.” FeelsKindArtSometimesHardKidsSchoolFitPagesHigh SchoolExcitedGreat ThingsOddArt School Author:Anthony Mackie
“For some reason, Horror movies, they seem like good date movies. When you go to them it's all high school kids, all over each other, running up and down the isles, no one is even looking at the screen anyways, they figure they don't have to pay attention to the story anyways. We scream and yell... it's like mayhem.” ReasonStoriesSeemsRunningKidsSchoolPayAttentionFiguresHorrorHigh SchoolScreensPay AttentionScreamUp And DownIsleMayhemDate Movie Author:Rob Zombie
“I feel that in all kids that I've came across, that at the age of 12-13 is a big transition . They begin forming the Young Adult there going to become, here molding . I can't put a "name" on it but it's something. Your trying to find yourself, were getting ready to go to High School and as this world teaches you, you must "belong" to something. (So we Belong to Something)” WorldFeelsTryingI CanBigsKidsAgeSchoolYoungNamesTeachThis WorldReadyHigh SchoolAdultsYoung AdultFinding YourselfTransitionMolding Author:Richard Cabral
“I'm delighted that our high school kids are developing these positives relationships with our police officers and getting such terrific hands-on experience. This will provide great benefits to our community now and in the future.” HandsKidsSchoolCommunityBenefitsHigh SchoolPoliceDevelopingOfficersTerrificDelightedOur CommunityPolice OfficerHands On Experience Author:Deb Matthews
“As a kid, I was fortunate that we grew up near a children's theater, with all different classes and things; so as a kid I took classes there and as I got into high school I did all the community theater stuff. Then I came to college here in New York, going to Marymount Manhattan, and studied acting there. But most of the training I got was from working. Working with really great people.” PeopleChildrenDifferentKidsSchoolStuffCommunityActingClassNew YorkCollegeGrewGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolTheaterFortunateReally GreatGreat People Author:Andrew Rannells
“In Texas a high school student was arrested for bringing what authorities thought was a bomb to school but turned out to be a clock. Now the kid is in bigger trouble for carrying a device that could bring Texas into the future.” KidsSchoolTroubleStudentsAuthorityHigh SchoolBiggerClockBombsDevicesTexasArrestedHigh School Students Author:Conan O'Brien
“I tell you that studying humanities in high school is more important than mathematics - mathematics is too sharp an instrument, no good for kids.” ImportantKidsSchoolHumanityStudyHigh SchoolMathematicsInstruments Author:Stefan Banach
“Everybody wants to be a professional baseball player and, sure, as a kid, I wanted to do that. But once I got cut from my high school team, I figured there wasn't much chance of that ever happening. I'm still in awe of it.” WantStillsKidsWantedSchoolChanceCuttingPlayerTeamHappeningsHigh SchoolBaseballAweBaseball Player Author:Mark Buehrle
“From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.” PeopleKidsSchoolFoundInterestingGroupsSmartHigh SchoolMusicalHatedCompellingHungHippie Author:Sandra Bernhard
“I had a great time in high school. I really did. I went to a private Christian high school and I graduated in a class of 67 kids, so it was pretty small, and I knew and loved everybody.” KidsSchoolChristianClassHigh SchoolGreat TimesHad A Great Time Author:Odette Annable
“When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign of your liberation and your freedom. Then we [had to worry about] AIDS, so they started lecturing my kids in elementary school about safe sex. Sex turned from something joyful into something kind of dangerous, and it was hard to avoid that sense that it was a different world.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentHardKidsSchoolSexSleepWorryDangerousSafeHigh SchoolAidsLiberationJoyfulHippieDifferent WorldsElementary SchoolYour FreedomFree LoveLecturing Author:Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal
“I know exactly what that movie's [Brokeback mountain] about. I can't define it; it doesn't tie up in a perfect bow. But it's about adolescence. It's about what it feels like - this isn't meant as a criticism, but like things I didn't relate to, which were high school movies. Where I'd watch it and I'd be like, "Well, am I like the kid that nobody likes? Or am I like the person who everybody [likes]?" I couldn't [tell]. I was like quantifying, putting me in a box. "This is my personality at that age" and "I'm this kind of person" just felt like bullshit to me.” KnowsFeelsWellsKindPersonsI CanKidsAgeSchoolFeltPerfectWatchesPersonalityMountainHigh SchoolCriticismBoxesLikesRelateTiesBowsBullshitAdolescenceBrokeback MountainHigh School Movie Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“I always say that, to me, it starts with reading. This is something I tell high school kids, college kids, people trying to get into the business, that it's just so much about reading. Read, read, read. So much of everything else falls into place when you just do a ton of reading.” PeopleTryingKidsSchoolFallReadingCollegeHigh SchoolFall Into Place Author:Joe Posnanski
“I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.” FactsKidsSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolPhysicsChemistryMoleculesCleaners Book:The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question? Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?
“I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.” ThinkingNeedsKidsSchoolTeacherGeniusMajorsHigh SchoolDoctorsMathWorthwhileMathematicianSenatorsCeoStereotypeDumpSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Jordan Ellenberg
“John Hughes made a certain type of high school movie, and then it stayed static for 30 years. The only thing that changed was that maybe it was found footage or maybe it's a little snarkier, but the actual language that kids live in today, like with texting, motion graphics, the internet and that whole hashtag culture doesn't exist in movies today. It's left on the floor.” YearsLittlesMadeWholeKidsTodaySchoolCertainCultureFoundLeftLanguageChangedTypeInternetHigh SchoolStaticTextingHashtagsHigh School Movie Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“My parents moved to American Samoa when I was three or four years old. My dad was principal of a high school there. It was idyllic for a kid. I had a whole island for a backyard. I lived there until I was eight years old and we moved to Santa Barbara.” YearsWholeKidsSchoolThreeParentFourDadHigh SchoolMovedMy DadEightIslandsFour YearsPrincipalSantaBackyardsBarbaraIdyllicSanta BarbaraSamoa Author:Eric Stoltz
“Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.” ThinkingWayDoeHelpingKidsSchoolStarsStuffFansWillingHugeRight NowGayHigh SchoolPopsFantasticAgendasLgbtMainstreamConsideringGay MarriageAlliancesPop StarsGaga Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I think kids should go to high school until they're 30. No, really, because people are staying younger now and there's nothing to do. If you stayed longer, then it would be really great.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldWould BeKidsSchoolHigh SchoolStayingReally Great Author:Andy Warhol
“In high school, I got picked on. It's funny that I got tormented for what I'm doing now - the acting thing. People would see me in a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day at school. Kids would say, 'Hi, TV Boy.' They heckled. I never got beat up.” PeopleKidsSchoolNextActingBoysTvsBeatsHigh SchoolNext DayNickelodeon Author:Jason Biggs
“I would have much rather been in the jalopy with the kids, going to Hunt's for hamburgers. But, when I entered high school, all my friends got into sororities and fraternities and I didn't.” KidsSchoolHigh SchoolMy FriendsHuntsHamburgersFraternitySorority Author:Betty Friedan
“In Europe, kids learn at least four languages before they're out of high school. But our education system is so underfunded, they go to school to buy heroin and an AK-47.” KidsSchoolLanguageFourHigh SchoolEuropeEducation SystemHeroinAk 47 Author:Eddie Griffin
“I've had a lot of people who've said they can relate to the show and it's helped them through a lot of difficult times, especially the kids in high school now. Everyone kind of feels like an outcast in high school. Even if you're super popular, you still have issues.” PeopleIfsFeelsKindSaidStillsShowsKidsSchoolDifficultIssuesHigh SchoolRelateDifficult TimesOutcast Author:Jillian Rose Reed
“My dad taught me to play the guitar. We grew up with country music. We had every Willie Nelson record (laughs). I was saved at a young age and had a great desire to follow God. I was really focused on that through my whole life, even as a kid and through high school.” CountryPlayWholeKidsAgeSchoolYoungDesireLaughingRecordsTaughtGrewDadGrew UpHigh SchoolGuitarMy DadFocusedSavedWhole LifeYoung AgeNelson Author:Chris Tomlin
“My mom is very proud of introducing music to all her kids. But I played in some bad rock bands my junior and senior years of high school.” YearsKidsSchoolRocksMomProudBandHigh SchoolMy MomIntroducingSeniorJuniorsRock BandsSenior Year Author:Miles Teller
“I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.” YearsKindDifferentBigsKidsSchoolLastsUsedThreeGrewBalanceGrew UpHigh SchoolExtremesDietsKicksGradesItalianVeganThree YearsFifthFifth GradeItalian Family Author:Nico Tortorella
“I went to a private Jewish school before high school, and a lot of the kids had beautiful homes, but my parents don't really care about those kinds of things.” KindHomeCareKidsSchoolBeautifulParentHigh School Author:Erin Heatherton
“I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.” KidsSchoolGuyGirlCausesTeamFootballHigh SchoolFatsSensitiveSkinnyThat GuyFootball TeamSteroidGetting LaidDropoutsSchool DropoutHigh School Dropout Author:Dave Grohl
“When I was in high school, I was in a special math class. I was infatuated with physics, particularly nuclear physics, Einstein, and the Big Bang. I read a lot about black holes. And partly because I'm so lazy I thought you could do all this just by looking at the sky and thinking up universes. It didn't seem like hard work when I was a kid, so I enrolled in this class.” ThinkingHardBigsSeemsKidsSchoolUniverseBlackClassSkySpecialHard WorkHigh SchoolMathNuclearPhysicsHolesLazyBangsBlack HoleInfatuatedNuclear PhysicsMath Class Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.” FirstsKidsLibertyRightsCollegeHigh SchoolPursuitSantaPursuit Of HappinessBarbaraRight To LifeColumbineSanta Barbara Author:Barack Obama
“I don't think we need a critic to negotiate with the audience. People say, "Who are you writing for?" I'm writing for myself but my audience is anybody who knows how to read. I think a story should engage anybody who knows how to read. And I hope that my stories do, maybe on a different level for more sophisticated readers than, say, a high school kid, but still a story has got to grab you. That's why we read it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldWritingStillsDifferentStoriesKidsSchoolLevelsAudienceKnow HowReaderHigh SchoolCriticsSophisticatedDifferent Levels Author:T.C. Boyle
“My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.” KidsSchoolClassHigh School Author:Geena Davis
“The good thing about competing at the NCAA Division I Level is that identifying recruits is usually a pretty easy thing for us to do. Most of the time, the type of kids we recruit are identified early in their high school careers by many college programs.” KidsSchoolEasyLevelsCareersCollegeTypeHigh SchoolProgramGood ThingsDivisionCompetingIdentifyingRecruitEasy ThingsNcaa Author:Billy Kennedy
“Ultimately, I felt fortunate, because in many ways I did identify with aspects of being gay that were very stereotypical. I was a big theatre kid in high school, I was creative, I was very emotionally sensitive, even hypersensitive. I loved female divas.” WayBigsKidsSchoolFeltCreativeGayHigh SchoolFemaleAspectTheatreFortunateSensitiveBeing Gay Author:Christopher Rice
“I think that's also why it's so exciting. I really believe this play is important these are issues that people don't talk about. Certainly they never talked about this type of thing at my high school. That's what makes it so hard for kids. But it is something that people do go through.” PeopleThinkingBelieveImportantHardPlayKidsSchoolIssuesTypeHigh SchoolExciting Author:Sarah Steele