“The three greatest people in my life as a young person were white, my high school superintendent, my high school coach and a - I graduate in Manhasset High, Kenneth Molloy who's a mentor to yours truly.I'm not a person that really deal in color.” PeoplePersonsSchoolYoungThreeWhiteDealsColorHigh SchoolCoachesGraduatesMentorKennethSuperintendents Author:Jim Brown
“There was a Yale even before Larry [Kramer] and I got there, and there were three designations of students: "white shoe," "brown shoe," and "black shoe." "White shoe" people were kind of the ur-preppies from high-class backgrounds. "Brown shoe" people were kind of the high school student-council presidents who were snatched up and brushed up a little bit to be sent out into the world. "Black shoe" people were beyond the pale. They were chemistry majors and things like that.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesSchoolThreeBitsBlackPresidentWhiteClassStudentsMajorsLittle BitHigh SchoolShoesBackgroundsBrownChemistryPaleCouncilLarryYaleDesignationHigh School StudentsKramerHigh ClassWhite ShoesStudent Council Author:Kevin Sessums
“I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.” PeopleAgeSchoolJobsLeftCommonCollegeHigh SchoolGraduatesGraduating High SchoolCommon Knowledge Author:Johnny Cash
“For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good.” PeopleSchoolLastsGuyCareersPositionHigh SchoolBackgroundsFamiliarGraduatesSalaryDiplomaHigh School Diploma Author:Edward Snowden
“I never imagined getting to do what I love for a living and having so many people appreciate it. There was only one other skater in my high school and we were the lowest form of cool. Our classmates couldn't figure out why we liked such a loser sport, or why we hadn't grown out of it yet.” PeopleSchoolFormSportsFiguresHigh SchoolAppreciateLoserLowestClassmatesSkater Author:Tony Hawk
“I'm a big lover of America. I love the people, but also the weird berms, the strange little high schools tucked away in different places, and just the whole geography and the psychological apparatus of Americans.” PeopleLittlesDifferentWholeBigsSchoolAmericaStrangeLoversHigh SchoolLogicalGeographyDifferent PlacePsycho Author:George Saunders
“Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.” PeopleYearsSometimesWholeSchoolSpeakTalkingTeamFrontsSpeechHigh SchoolWhole Year Author:Gabriel Iglesias
“I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood.” PeopleThinkingDreamSchoolLandChildhoodHigh SchoolMy FriendsClosestNostalgicElementary SchoolClosest Friends Author:Tyra Banks
“I think it is an accurate statement to say that some people consider feelings of same-gender attraction to be the defining fact of their existence. There are also people who consider the defining fact of their existence that they are from Texas or that they were in the United States Marines. Or they are red-headed, or they are the best basketball player that ever played for such-and-such a high school. People can adopt a characteristic as the defining example of their existence and often those characteristics are physical.” PeopleThinkingStatesFactsFeelingsSchoolUnitedExistenceUnited StatesPlayerExampleBasketballHigh SchoolRedGenderAttractionStatementsCharacteristicsTexasAccurateMarineDefiningBasketball PlayerBest BasketballUnited States Marine Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Howard Zinn ran what is called the Zinn Education Project. It is a radical, radical bunch of insane lunatic leftists. And there is a project at the Zinn Educational Project: A People's History of Muslims in the United States - What School Textbooks and the Media Miss. And this program is teaching your high school student, juror junior high or middle school student.” PeopleStatesSchoolUnitedUnited StatesTeachingMiddleMediaMissingStudentsProjectsHigh SchoolProgramEducationalBunchInsaneRadicalRanJuniorsLunaticTextbooksMiddle SchoolLeftistsJunior HighHigh School StudentsJurors Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.” PeopleHeartKindWholeCharacterSeemsKidsSchoolRolesMediaHeroHigh SchoolGoldScriptsDisabilityPremisesQuarterbackGleeWheelchairsPottyHeart Of Gold Author:Zach Anner
“My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also a few others, helped kind of instill in me, thinking thoughts about how life is meaningful in terms of how we all kind of live in a network of people and how you interact with those people is part of what makes life essentially meaningful and then kind of concepts to think about, how do you add value to other people's lives? How do they add value to yours? And how do you kind of form a community together in the network?” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentSchoolTogetherFormLife IsValuesTermCommunityTeacherInfluenceHigh SchoolConceptsAddMeaningfulAll KindsInstill Author:Reid Hoffman
“Families that I lived with a little bit in junior high and quite a bit in high school and college. Just to have a safe, sane space with food and things like that. That's what I needed. And people were really kind and really generous. So I think the world kind of opened up my first years of performing arts, studying classical saxophone with Caesar DiMauro.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsFirstsKindLittlesArtSchoolBitsSpaceStudyCollegeNeededSafeLittle BitHigh SchoolPerformingGenerousSaneJuniorsSaxophoneJunior HighPerforming Arts Author:Jon Gordon
“Talent doesn't appear over night. It takes a lot of work and honing your craft, but also don't give up because people may say you're not good enough. I had so many teachers in high school and college saying "You're not going to make it. You're not. You can't." Luckily I had enough people around me who said I could.” PeopleGivingMaySaidEnoughSchoolNightTeacherTalentCollegeGiving UpHigh SchoolCraftsGood EnoughDon't Give UpHad EnoughNot Good EnoughHoning Author:Lea Michele
“It was difficult showing up in Grade 1 as Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son, it was difficult to become a high school teacher as Pierre Elliott Trudeau's son. That's something that I've lived with all my life. What people don't necessarily remember is that my father was an incredibly present dad as a prime minister.” PeopleSchoolRememberFatherDifficultTeacherSonDadHigh School Author:Justin Trudeau
“I don't walk down the street like, "I'm famous." It's still weird to me when people ask for pictures. My close friends from high school keep me grounded - they don't care about what I do. I'm still the same person I was, and I try hard not to change.” PeopleTryingCareSchoolHigh SchoolClose Friends Author:Bella Hadid
“When people talk about people being left behind - middle wages have not gone up for years, and we should recognize that, and there I think we need growth and skills - but there are these other people who have been left behind. When I say out loud, "Fifty percent of inner-city schoolkids do not graduate from high school," that is a national catastrophe. We should be ringing the alarm bells. It's not fair.” PeopleThinkingSchoolGrowthHigh SchoolGraduatesCatastropheLeft Behind Author:Jamie Dimon
“I don't think I would ever be a doctor, but the reason I majored in science was because you could become a civil engineer, you could become a biologist, you could become a computer scientist - that was the point of it. I had no idea what I wanted to do. In my last two years of high school here happened to be these few scripts that I really responded to. Eventually, I landed the job, and that was something that I felt transcended whatever other people would think of me.” PeopleThinkingReasonSchoolComputerHigh SchoolScientistThink Of MeBiologist Author:Bill Skarsgard
“Kids that are allegedly better students are in an elitist class in first and second grade and then they go to their high schools, they go to their universities and the normal dumb shits like me are down at the bottom. These people go to elitist schools and they replicate their elitist thoughts in the corporations.” PeopleKidsSchoolStudentsHigh SchoolBottomDumbElitist Author:Paul Orfalea
“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
“The difference between what designers create are you know they're creating a little world every season, you know head to toe, a full look, shoes bags, dresses, the whole thing whereas street fashion is what people are really wearing. There is an element of new. There is an element of previous seasons. There is your own history, you know your sweatshirt from high school and vintage pieces and it's that kind of combination that I find so much more interesting than just the runway, but you know and I love fashion.” PeopleWorldKindSchoolInterestingFashionHigh SchoolDesigner Author:Scott Schuman
“One last important influence I'll mention is Flannery O'Connor. In high school I shoplifted her Complete Stories. Having read "Good Country People" for class, I really just felt a home in her work. I had little guilt about the theft at the time. I sucked in my stomach and shoved the book into my pants. It's very big. I can still feel how it cut into my body in the most exciting way. Clearly, I don't feel guilt-free about this crime anymore - I wouldn't be mentioning here, looking for some absolution if I did.” PeopleImportantBookCountryHomeSchoolCuttingInfluenceCrimeHigh SchoolExcitingGuilt Author:Samantha Hunt
“There is actually a huge suicide problem in Palo Alto schools, so obviously not all is well in paradise. High expectations, and the pressure to achieve in a highly competitive world are too much for a lot of very promising young people. There have been something like ten youth suicides in Palo Alto in the past ten years. They usually step in front of the train that runs by the high school.” PeopleWorldProblemRunningSchoolPastAchieveYouthExpectationsHigh SchoolSuicideTrainHigh Expectations Author:James Franco
“When my friends who were college age took a year off of school, they'd play in Weatherbox, or between high school and college. People always joined on a short-term basis and I did things one day at a time, I guess. There was never a big plan when someone was joining. They were never joining on a full-time membership basis. Since then, we just deal with it. I'd like to have a band that's a total constant, but it's probably not realistic at some point.” PeopleAgeSchoolCollegeOne DayHigh SchoolRealisticOne Day At A Time Author:Brian Warren
“I did my last year of high school as an exchange student. I lived south of the Atlanta, in a quite strange place - real southern. I formed my first band that year and we just started playing my songs live. It was way in for me to get to know people and to really feel at home there - through music.” PeopleRealHomeSchoolSongStudentsStrangeHigh SchoolSouthern Author:Anna Ternheim
“I remember being in high school and my mother would say, "What about such-and-such boy?" I'm like, "Oh mom, he's too nice," we don't like the nice boys when we're 16. I'd say, "He's not attractive," and she'd say "All young people are attractive." And they are, and I get that.” PeopleSchoolRememberMotherBoysNiceMomHigh SchoolAttractiveToo Nice Author:Rosemarie DeWitt
“L.A. is this huge epicenter of the most popular person. Can you imagine, every single high school in the world where someone says, "You're so beautiful, you could be a movie star," all of those one people move to this town called L.A.” PeopleWorldSchoolBeautifulMovingImagineHigh SchoolMovie Star Author:Topher Grace
“Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know that music. I'm going to go audition." I ended up being in it and I sang and it was mind-altering - to me, to my parents, who had never heard me sing like that. It put a stop to everything else that I was doing - every sport that I played, every instrument, it was all dropped because nothing felt like that. I feel really lucky that I found my passion at that point. There are people who are adults who don't know what their passion is and go through life doing "a job."” PeopleSchoolPassionSportsParentLuckyHigh SchoolSensibilityMy Passion Author:Anika Noni Rose
“My mom is Jamaican and Chinese, and my dad is Polish and African American, so I'm pretty mixed. My nickname in high school was United Nations. I was fine with it, even though I identify as a black woman. People don't realize it hurts my feelings when someone looks at my hair or my eyes, and says, "But you're not actually black. You're black, but you're not black black, because your eyes are green." I'm like, "What? No, no, I'm definitely black." Even some of my closest friends have said that. It's been a bit touchy for me.” PeopleFeelingsEyeSchoolBlackRealizingHurtMomDadHigh SchoolMy DadMy MomAfrican AmericanChineseIt HurtsBlack WomenUnited Nations Author:Ayesha Curry
“I don't want to go back to sitcoms - I'm a middle-aged, white guy - the high school principal who's a buffoon. It's hard enough raising kids now a days, and I don't want to be a part of a show that I'll be embarrassed watching shows like that with my kids and my mother. A lot of shows feel they need to get that for humor. You've have to have had a life experience; otherwise, it's toilet humor. If you've had a job before or experienced something, you get it. Some of these people haven't and they look for the cheap laugh.” PeopleEnoughKidsSchoolMotherGuyLaughingHigh SchoolLife ExperienceEmbarrassedSitcom Author:John Ratzenberger
“There are jobs here in Baltimore, but the problem is we don't have skilled people. Like the Port Covington initiative - that's 20 years out. I instituted initiatives as mayor that called for equities for minorities, increase minority opportunities, training. It's a good model to duplicate. Everybody doesn't want to go to college. A lot of our vocational programs don't have the latest technology. Students should begin freshman year in high school working on a plan for graduation - either going into an apprenticeship or college.” PeopleProblemSchoolOpportunityTechnologyStudentsCollegeTrainingHigh SchoolProgramInitiativeEquityFreshmanFreshman Year Author:Sheila Dixon
“The underdog is a person that's at-risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean that was my life. Me - coming from a single parent home. I didn't have offers coming out of high school. So I had to really have faith and lean on Jesus for everything because nothing was given to me. I had to really work for everything. I'm definitely an underdog. I think Jesus made me be in that situation to be able to relate to more people. That's why give back to the at-risk kids.” PeopleThinkingGivingMeanHomeKidsSchoolJesusParentSituationHigh SchoolOvercomingHave FaithGiving BackUnderdogSingle Parent Author:Chris Harris, Jr.
“Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president. We're seeing how at least whole swathes of white America are becoming your worst nightmare of eternal Zombie High School. Something like a perfect mix of Groundhog Day and The Moronic Inferno. How can it be that a guy who looks like a bloated cadaver pulled from the Gowanus canal, with some rouge on his cheeks and a sticky Something About Mary wig, is actually applauded by his followers for making fun of how other people look?” PeopleSchoolGuyFunPresidentPerfectWorstHigh SchoolNightmareDepressingZombieInferno Author:Francisco Goldman
“We're living through an era of higher income inequality than the country has experienced since before the Great Depression. Meanwhile, most people are running in place, and those in the bottom quintile of the economy are being swept backward year in and year out. A worker with a high school education today is likely to earn less in real terms than did their parents and grandparents in the early 1970s. Not coincidentally, while overall life expectancy is increasing in America, for those with low levels of education it's actually declining.” PeopleRealCountryRunningTodaySchoolParentTermEconomyHigh SchoolBottomInequalityGrandparentGreat Depression Author:Sasha Abramsky
“I can certainly see a band like Nirvana, like when they started having to play to the kind of guys that beat them up in high school - that was probably shocking. But you make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.” PeopleKindSchoolMovingGuyHigh SchoolElitist Author:Greg Dulli
“For years I taught in universities and high schools for classes of 30 or 35 students. Now I teach in very large venues with thousands of people in the audience. I used to have notes. Now I just let go and let God. I just allow it to come, and I didn't do that before. I never even used the word "God" for twenty or twenty-five years. Now it just rolls out of my mouth all the time.” PeopleSchoolTeachAudienceStudentsLetting GoHigh SchoolJust Let Go Author:Wayne Dyer
“Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It's interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That's how it all starts - someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.” PeopleChildrenSchoolInterestingFootballCollegeHigh SchoolOur ChildrenDiscussionChildren Playing Author:Donte Stallworth
“In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.” PeopleKindDifferentSelfSchoolHairHigh SchoolAwkwardHallwaysDorky Author:Amy Adams
“Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.” PeopleTryingKidsSchoolPastHigh SchoolRelateBoots Author:George Lucas
“I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.” PeopleWayKindSchoolFoundLaughingStageFrontsBalanceEgoHigh SchoolOvercomingPerformingShyReservedMaking People LaughShynessEgo Trip Author:Steve Martin
“What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.” PeopleIfsHardKidsSchoolMiddleReaderHigh SchoolComing OutCompetentMiddle School Author:James Patterson
“I think once I was in high school - I had boyfriends and stuff like that, but I think when I was younger, I went through a period where I looked like a boy, and people thought I was a boy.” PeopleThinkingSchoolStuffBoysPeriodsHigh SchoolLike A Boy Author:Amanda Peet
“I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world.” PeopleThinkingWorldShouldRealSchoolHigh SchoolReal World Author:Katy Perry
“I went to a high school that didn't have many people in it. There were, like, 60 people in my senior class. There was a group of cool kids and a group of really dorky kids, and I was probably the coolest of the really dorky kids.” PeopleKidsSchoolClassGroupsHigh SchoolSeniorDorkyCool KidSenior Class Author:Matthew Perry
“As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.” PeopleThinkingCareSchoolRight NowHigh SchoolThink Of Me Author:Nicole Polizzi
“The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.” PeopleKnowsKidsSchoolCultureLiteratureBrainTalkingListeningMessagesHigh SchoolBuiltCourtReunionAttendingPromHigh School ReunionSchool Reunion Author:Anna Quindlen
“Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.” PeopleKnowsWayWantStillsMatterSchoolPastHigh SchoolNostalgic Author:Jason Reitman
“You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.” PeopleThinkingGivingSchoolGamesLostChildhoodMissingEventsGiving UpHigh SchoolTradeAwfulMissing YouProm Author:Mary Lou Retton
“The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.” PeopleEyeKidsSchoolRolesRightsMiddleMovementGayHigh SchoolCivil RightsLgbtTemperatureCivil Rights MovementGay PeopleProminentMiddle SchoolPublic Eye Author:Dan Savage
“As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.” PeopleMatterSchoolFacesWalksHigh SchoolNegativeNo Matter WhatLike MeSoberSupportiveSelectHometownBeing Sober Author:Taylor Swift