When I got outta High School I was driving a truck. I was just a poor boy from Memphis, Memphis.
Elvis PresleyLet’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
Stephen KingIn my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
Fidel CastroI remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.
Marilyn MonroeEven Gaddafi’s adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
Fidel CastroI went through a lot of battles in high school.
LeBron JamesEven 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.
George LucasAs a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!
Charles SpurgeonI’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.
Jimmy CarterTrue terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt VonnegutThat’s correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn’t write.
Robert KiyosakiI’ve been composing music all my life and if I’d been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
Anthony HopkinsWhen I first stopped going to high school, I was about 15, 16. It had to be, like, 2000, 2001.
Nipsey HussleThroughout my life, I’ve always been really close with girls and made friends with girls. And I’ve always been a really sickly, feminine person anyhow, so I thought I was gay for a while because I didn’t find any of the girls in my high school attractive at all.
Kurt CobainI didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.
Taylor SwiftWhen I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I’m the real big homie, the same way I look at Jay Z, Nas, or Dr. Dre. You would’ve thought Michael Jackson walked through that joint off the excitement that they had.
Kendrick LamarI was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India’s flag in New Delhi.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamMy freshman and sophomore years in high school, I spent a lot of time trying to get back on the right track. I was arrested multiple times by the time I was 16, so I had a little harder time trying to adjust like a lot of us do in high school.
Dwayne JohnsonBy 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.
Bill GatesI think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can’t imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation.
Stephen CurryI know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.
Jim CarreyAkron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I’m still working out at my old high school.
LeBron JamesThe funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.
Kevin HartI wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time.
David ByrneWhen I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
Jane GoodallGeorge Carlin’s album, ‚Class Clown,‘ came out when I was in high school. I memorized a lot of that album. I’d come home from school, put it on, and listen over and over. I started memorizing it. I don’t even know why. I loved it so much I memorized it.
Steven WrightThey used to call me ‚Touchdown T.‘ I remember in high school, we had homecoming, and I got in front of the pep rally, and I told them, ‚I’m going to run for three touchdowns.‘ I ran for three touchdowns, kicked the extra point, and took myself out the game.
Mr. TOne is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.
Alice MunroI cycled when I was at high school, then reconnected with bikes in New York in the late ’70s. It was a good way of getting around the clubs and galleries of the Lower East Side and Soho.
David ByrneMy folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.
Kendrick LamarIn high school I wanted to be a rock star and was in a lot of bands.
Adam SandlerIn this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘
Jimmy CarterI used to watch some F1 races but I was never straightaway thinking ‚that is what I want to do.‘
Lando NorrisWhen I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.
David ByrneEvery time I hear a politician mention the word ‚stimulus,‘ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.
Robert KiyosakiNo woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret ThatcherHe knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard ShawLike other kids wanted to become firemen or astronauts, I wanted to make people laugh.
Steven WrightIt feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven’t been in a high school for about a year. So um, it’s kinda interesting coming back, and y’know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way.
Taylor SwiftI got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.
Richard P. FeynmanWhen I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.
Ray BradburyAmerica thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
Barack ObamaPeople tend to think that because I’m a performer and I don’t go to a regular high school that I haven’t personally been affected by bullies. But it’s actually quite the contrary.
Ariana GrandeI want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
Marilyn MonroeI thought I would be a guy on the radio.
Steven WrightAs 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.
Taylor SwiftBut there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
Ronald ReaganAll of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.
Mark ZuckerbergI started wearing Ugg when I was, like, 13 or 14, in high school, and my mom got me a pair for Christmas one year.
Tom BradyMy mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.
John Kennedy