“I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting. My high school was crazy about football.” SchoolActingHalfCrazyFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolTownsTexasSmall Town Author:Jesse Plemons
“We need 21st century programs. We have to change the dynamic because the world - we're not in the Industrial Revolution anymore, where you could leave high school, go work at the town factory for 50 years, and retire with a pension.” WorldNeedsYearsSchoolCenturyRevolutionHigh SchoolProgramTownsRetiringFactories21st CenturyPensionIndustrial Revolution Author:Marco Rubio
“I feel so lucky that my high school was right in the middle of Denver, which is one of those sort of segregated towns, with black and white and Hispanic neighborhoods. But the school I went to was right in the middle of the whole thing.” FeelsWholeSchoolBlackWhiteMiddleLuckyHigh SchoolTownsNeighborhoodBlack And WhiteHispanicSo LuckyDenver Author:Bill Frisell
“Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.” PeopleKnowsSchoolCertainCommunityCompanyHigh SchoolTownsInstitutionsPublishingSmall Town Author:Alice Hoffman
“I grew up in Evanston and lived in Chicago for a long time, in Old Town and Wrigleyville. I did three films when I was in high school. The first was 'Class,' with Rob Lowe. I had a supporting role in that.” FirstsLongSchoolFilmThreeClassRolesGrewGrew UpLong TimeHigh SchoolTownsChicagoSupporting RolesLowes Author:John Cusack
“On the road you can really be more regular about it and work it into daily routines. There's no town that doesn't have a gym. And if you find one that actually doesn't, you can go to the local high school. They always have one.” IfsSchoolHigh SchoolTownsLocalsWorking ItGymDaily Routines Author:Aaron Tippin
“People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.” PeopleIfsKindSchoolGirlAsksStrangeHigh SchoolTownsConservativeRingsNosesBizarreStrange ThingsMichiganShaved Head Author:Gillian Anderson
“I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was either somebody from the South or an immigrant from East Europe or from Mexico. And there was one church, and there were four elementary schools. And we were all, pretty much until the end of the war, very, very poor.” LittlesWarEndsSchoolTogetherBlackChurchPoorClassFourHigh SchoolEuropeTownsSouthEastNeighborhoodImmigrantsMexicoWorking ClassElementary School Author:Toni Morrison
“My mom was my English teacher in high school. So to be able to bend the rules and be the class clown and get to take on my religion, my mom, and my town all at the same time was glorious. I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. If you're cracking a joke in school, it's sort of anti-authority, but it's in the nicest, "Please like me!" way.” IfsThinkingWayAbleSchoolDesireBitsClassTeacherMomPleaseAuthorityJokesHigh SchoolTownsMy MomLike MeGloriousClownMixturesElbowsEnglish Teacher Author:Paul Rust
“US Cycling is doing a lot now with camps in different towns or different regions, but I think a great place, and I'm not sure how much it's been hit, is camps for people that are involved in other sports. Why not put on camps for high school kids that are cross-country runners, because those are the some of the best cyclists.” PeopleThinkingDifferentCountryKidsSchoolSportsInvolvedHigh SchoolCrossesTownsNot SureRegionsWhy NotCampsRunnersCyclingCyclists Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I've been in towns where there is no library, or where the library for the high school and the library for the town is one room, and it's smaller than my modest living room here. So you don't have many resources in 1950 or even 1970. This is the year, 2013, every town in America is connected to the web. Every town in America is therefore connected to all kinds of resources at the Library of Congress, at 100,000 websites.” YearsKindSchoolAmericaRoomsHigh SchoolResourcesTownsLibraryCongressConnectedAll KindsModestWebsiteLiving Room Author:James W. Loewen
“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
“Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.” KnowsWantMindFirstsHeartRealitySchoolAmericaGamesTeamHigh SchoolBaseballTownsSmall TownHeart And Mind Author:Jacques Barzun
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.” WorldLittlesHomeSchoolGrowsHigh SchoolHollywoodTownsDrivingCirclesBlockLittle TownsHome TownSchool FriendsHigh School Friends Author:Robert Rodriguez
“If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.” IfsKidsSchoolPoliticianHigh SchoolTownsCastingPosters Author:Gus Van Sant
“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
“Lestat and Louie feel sorry for vampires that sparkle in the sun. They would never hurt immortals who choose to spend eternity going to high school over and over again in a small town ---- anymore than they would hurt the physically disabled or the mentally challenged. My vampires possess gravitas. They can afford to be merciful.” FeelsSchoolHurtSunHigh SchoolEternityTownsSorryVampireSmall TownDisabledMercifulSparkleLestatVampire LestatGravitasPhysically DisabledGoing To High School Author:Anne Rice
“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
“[At high school in Cape Town] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested in astronomy and devoured the popular works of astronomers such as Sir Arthur Eddington and Sir James Jeans, from which I learnt that a knowledge of mathematics and physics was essential to the pursuit of astronomy. This increased my fondness for those subjects.” SchoolScienceInterestActingKnowledgeLearningSubjectsEssentialsHigh SchoolTownsMathematicsPhysicsAstronomyPursuitTennisAcademicJeansArthurAstronomersFondnessCapesCape TownAcademic Work Author:Allan McLeod Cormack
“High School: Oh, man. This is where boys and girls go from tweens to teens and become complicated and cruel. Girls play sick mind games; boys try to pull each other's penises off and throw them in the bushes. If you can, buy the most expensive jeans in a two-hundred-mile radius of your town and wear them on your first day. If anyone asks how you could afford them say that your father is the president of Ashton Kutcher. When they are like, 'Ashton Kutcher has a president?' answer, 'Yes.' Everyone will be in awe of you and you won't have to go through a lot of pain and cat fights.” IfsMenTryingMindFirstsTwoPlaySchoolPainGirlFightingAsksFatherGamesPresidentAnswersBoysHundredHigh SchoolCatSickTownsComplicatedMilesExpensiveAweTeensJeansBoy And GirlOur TownMind GamesRadiusTweens Author:Eugene Mirman
“In high school I spent most of my time in jeans and T-shirts or Juicy sweats. We're such a laid-back town. I mean, people wore bikinis under their clothes half the time, so you didn't really get dressed up to go to school.” PeopleMeanSchoolHalfClothesHigh SchoolTownsShirtsMy TimeSweatJeansT ShirtDressed UpMean PeopleBikinisJuicyLaid Back Author:Lauren Conrad