A High School Dropout Quotes

#1. I had to fend for myself from the time I was 17 years old. I was a high-school dropout. I wasn't quite living on the streets, but I didn't have a lot of hope.

Rene Russo

#2. As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.

Charles B. Rangel

#3. Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16.

Britta Phillips

#4. Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

William J. Bernstein

#5. I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Adam Oates

#6. I can say that when you model,when you get to a certain age, that's it for you. I remember there was a time where I was like, 'What am I going to do with my life?' I am a high school dropout who's only modeled. So there was desperation with that.

Rene Russo

#7. Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead.

Kamala Harris

#8. I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

David Ayer

#9. My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.

Daniel Goldstein

#10. I was a high-school dropout; I was a loner.

Rene Russo

#11. If you were smart, you'd probably spend more time stretching, he said & I said, If I were really smart, I'd probably spend more time just sitting in the shade drinking lemonade.

Brian Andreas

#12. I sit back and try to think. I've been discovering, much to my dismay, that I'm not a criminal mastermind or anything. I'm just brute force and my powers in no way include super-intelligence, which kind of pisses me off.

Kelly Thompson

#13. High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.

Cedric Richmond

#14. My injuries are more due to attrition than accidents. I have a couple of herniated discs in my neck, and that more than anything else - I had a flare-up last December, and I had actually made the decision to retire before that, but that just cemented the choice. I was flat on my back.

Sascha Radetsky

#15. Let the consequences be what they will, I am determined to proceed.

James Otis

#16. I'm this high school dropout. I quit in my sophomore year, when I was 15. I worked for a while in a deli, and when I was almost 17, I got married.

Mary Beth Whitehead

#17. I'm a skinny, geeky, high school dropout - it works, kids! Sensitive guys always get the girl. You'll get laid 10 times as much as that guy on the football team 'cause he's on steroids and he's gonna get fat.

Dave Grohl

#18. Trouble didn't just come in threes: it gathered passengers as it went, and crashed nastily into bystanders.

C.J. Cherryh

#19. Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#20. Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial.

David Brooks

#21. That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn't do school anymore. Something inside wouldn't let me.

Junot Diaz