My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I… — Kenny Troutt Copy Share Image
“ What am I? Chopped liver? Is there some specific reason he never pulls me over close to him as we drive… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“Hold still, Meg, you’re dripping blood on my car seats.” I reached behind the passenger seat of Tennyson’s car looking for the… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“There's a certain romanticism that comes with being young. Young men and women just released from high school are ready to take… — Ryan Smithson Copy Share Image
“In high school, I developed a new love: acting. I went to a predominantly black and Latino school in Compton and, outside… — Issa Rae Copy Share Image
My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“I met with a group of a hundred or so fifth graders from a poor neighborhood at a school in Houston, Texas.… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I developed a prejudice in high school that it was all going to be boring. That kind of teenage, why-do-I-have-to-read-these-goddamn-classics feeling. And… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
I was that kid who did every activity when I was in high school. There wasn't a day that I didn't stay… — Chris Gethard Copy Share Image
To be honest, I already felt that I was going to win the gold medal, but with school being so hard I… — Claressa Shields Copy Share Image
School was rough for me. I was a good student in middle school, but high school wasn't so fun. I still pulled… — India de Beaufort Copy Share Image
I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer… — Tim Fish Copy Share Image
Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
When I was in high school in Los Angeles, my mother, who was a speech therapist, agreed to stay over the weekend… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but… — Laurie Metcalf Copy Share Image
I got to choreograph a halftime dance with the cheerleading squad, which was all-female, at my high school. And I was the… — Trace Lysette Copy Share Image
When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
“The daughter of Lithuanian immigrants, born with a precocious scientific intellect and a thirst for chemical knowledge, Elion had completed a master's… — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“33 percent of high school graduates who don’t go on to college never read another book for the rest of their lives,… — Jason Merkoski Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, it was the beginning of hippies and free love and sleeping with people was a sign… — Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
“As far as I could see, she didn't take any better care of her apparel than I did mine, but I owned… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t gone to Andover, or Horace Mann or Eton. My high school had been the average kind, and I’d been the… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other,… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I was basically 18 when I got offered to join Mister Valentine band and go on tour and leave high school. I… — Brian Warren Copy Share Image
I got kicked out of high school, went to 3 different high schools and summer school and extra night school just so… — Marisol Nichols Copy Share Image
All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
“He walked me to the door--the same one to which I’d been escorted many times before by pimply high school boys and… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“only 1 of every 3 young black male high school dropouts was able to obtain any type of employment during the average… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
If it takes a high school diploma nowadays to enlist in the army than damn I'm shit out of luck¦but I thought… — George Ferreira Copy Share Image
“The term ‘political correctness’ has evolved out of the Marxist and Freudian philosophies of the 1930s to become a tool for multicultural-ism,… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
Math and science fields are not the only areas where we see the United States lagging behind. Less than 1 percent of… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
“Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered what the universe is made of has not so much as received a… — Jeremy Knowles Copy Share Image
“You read a book for the story, for each of its words," Gordy said, "and you draw your cartoons for the story,… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I would point out that I'm an actress for a reason! If I were popular in high school, I would have considered… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
When I was a kid. I never really had luck with the ladies my early years in high school. Then I started… — Paolo Nutini Copy Share Image
“Kitty's always saying how origin stories are important. At college, when people ask us how we met, how will we answer them?… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“All Julie has to do is explain to her friends that she's using it to individually seal each item that she throws… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image