| "Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody." »Happy Gilmore |
| "Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications." »Fran Lebowitz |
| "Experience is a good school, but the fees are high." »Heinrich Heine |
| "high school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "Wooderson That's what I like about these high school girls, I keep getting older, they stay the same age." »Dazed and Confused |
| "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait." »A. Whitney Brown |
| "Billy T-T-T-T-Today, junior" »Billy Madison |
| "Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out." »Manley E. Rogers |
| "The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed." »William John Bennett |
| "I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference. (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR high school)" »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days." »Isabel Waxman |
| "The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control." »William Fullbright |
| "high living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta |
| "high thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes |
| "high office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy |
| "A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles ... an amateur promoter, a glad-hander, embryo Rotarian, caf-society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind." »Harold Taylor |
| "What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson |
| "Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself." »Shannon Miller |
| "Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. 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." »John Green |
| "What did you ask at school today" »Richard Fenyman |
| "We learn not in the school, but in life." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." »Edmund Burke |
| "Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality." »Beatrix Potter |
| "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did." »Lawrence Peter Berra |
| "He who opens a school door, closes a prison." »Victor Hugo |
| "Experience is an expensive school, but a fool will learn from no other." »Japanese Proverb |
| "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school." »Albert Einstein |
| "The home is the chief school of human virtues." »William Ellery Channing |
| "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education." »Smiley Blanton |
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