“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
“As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.” YearsTwoMatterFactsSchoolFatherStudyBecomingHigh SchoolDecidedTwo YearsPriestsAnticipationMatter Of FactSeminaryAfter High School Author:Bob Gunton
“In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.” IfsLifeYearsMadeTwoSchoolLastsFacesSuccessGirlMistakeCompanyHigh SchoolNervousTwo YearsSpokesSuccess In LifeMade A MistakeI Made A MistakePimples Author:Joseph L. Mankiewicz
“I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the class writing down random stories and stuff that would have nothing to do with school. I only lasted two years in high school before I moved out to L.A.” WritingYearsTwoStoriesWould BeSchoolStuffClassHigh SchoolMovedTwo YearsDaydreaming Author:Charlie McDermott
“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.” YearsTwoBookSchoolNightSidesNovelWrittenHigh SchoolMovedParadiseTwo YearsPillowMoved OnManiaPrincetonTender Is The Night Author:A. Scott Berg
“I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.” YearsFirstsTwoBookMomentsSchoolRememberThreeReadingHigh SchoolMy FamilyTwo YearsThree YearsChaptersWrathGrapesTurtlesLearning EnglishAha Moment Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.” YearsTwoDoneSchoolLastsThreeActingStudyTeamFootballCollegeSpeechDegreesSummerHigh SchoolTheaterTrainWinterDeterminedClockThirtyThrownTwo YearsJailAfternoonFootball TeamWisconsin Author:Paul Newman
“I've been rapping and writing since junior high school, just having fun with it as a hobby. Then I got signed to a label Poe Boy Entertainment four years ago, I started taking it serious about a year and a half, two years ago.” WritingYearsTwoSchoolFunHalfBoysFourSeriousHigh SchoolYears AgoEntertainmentRapLabelsHaving FunTwo YearsFour YearsHobbiesJuniorsJunior HighTwo Years AgoJust Have FunHigh School Junior Author:Jacki-O
“I went straight from high school to Bible college for two years. Then I started doing music right out of Bible college full time. I did independent stuff for three years.” YearsTwoSchoolThreeStuffCollegeHigh SchoolIndependentTwo YearsThree Years Author:Jeremy Camp
“I was probably just graduating high school, maybe still in high school. When I was still in high school, maybe the last two years, I was rapping but I wasn't telling anybody. When I signed my deal people didn't know it was the same Ryan Montgomery from Oak Park High School, because I used to play basketball and I used to fight. Like I'd bring boxing gloves to school. So when they found out, it was, "You mean Ryan who be boxing?" or, "Ryan who be hopping up at the park?" So I was known as that guy.” PeopleKnowsYearsMeanStillsTwoPlaySchoolLastsUsedGuyFightingFoundDealsKnownBasketballHigh SchoolRapParksBoxingTwo YearsGraduatesThat GuyGlovesOaksMontgomeryGraduating High SchoolHoppingBoxing Gloves Author:Ryan Montgomery
“Mia and I had been together for more than two years, and yes, it was a high school romance, but it was still the kind of romance where I thought we were trying to find a way to make it forever, the kind that, had we met five years later and had she not been some cello prodigy and had I not been in a band on the rise - or had our lives not been ripped apart by all this -I was pretty sure it would've been.” WayTryingYearsKindStillsTwoSchoolTogetherRomanceForeverFiveOur LivesMetsBandHigh SchoolFive YearsTwo YearsRippedProdigiesMia Author:Gayle Forman
“When I was a sophomore, a friend asked me to go to a local acting seminar with him. Two guys were very interested in me and wanted me to come out to L.A. I wanted to finish high school before doing anything like that. I figured they’d just forget about me, but they kept after me for two years.” YearsTwoWantedSchoolGuyForgetActingHigh SchoolLocalsTwo YearsSeminarsSophomoreTwo GuysForget About Me Author:Jensen Ackles