Quotes About Finish High School

#1. America has a terrible educational problem in the sense that we have too many youngsters not finishing school. A third of our kids don't finish high school, 50 percent of minorities don't finish high school.

Colin Powell

#2. I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hard-working.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

Mary J. Blige

#4. I want to finish high school, but that will be it.

Adolfo Cambiaso

#5. And yet 50 percent of the kids who start high school in the United States today do not finish high school.

James T. Walsh

#6. I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.

Joy Covey

#7. I went to art high school and thought I'd be a painter. Unfortunately I didn't finish high school, but that's always been part of my work.

David LaChapelle

#8. You need only do three things in this country to avoid poverty - finish high school, marry before having a child, and marry after the age of 20. Only 8 percent of the families who do this are poor; 79 percent of those who fail to do this are poor.

William Galston

#9. My parents made me finish high school before I started acting, and I did, like, two weeks of fine arts college before I was like, 'This sucks. I'm going!' I got a few small jobs, and then I booked a big-for-Canada feature.

Jessica Pare

#10. In some states, not even 50 percent of black boys finish high school.

Tavis Smiley

#11. 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.

Jensen Ackles

#12. By the time they finish high school - after years of learning how to please their teachers and coaches, not to mention schmoozing with their parents' friends - elite students have become accomplished adult-wranglers.

William Deresiewicz

#13. The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

Larry Elder

#14. I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Marlo Thomas

#15. I didn't finish high school, but I went to a special school for producers and musicians, a three year course for engineering, producing and learning all the tricks. So now I have my producing degree and certification.

Martin Garrix

#16. In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

Milton Friedman

#17. To make peace is not a passive endeavor, but rather an activist mindset that works toward the end of conflict. In our world, it is not the soldier but the activist who calls for peace.

Dillon Burroughs

#18. We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

Barack Obama

#19. It was stupid not to let MacArthur finish off those rice eaters. Push 'em back.

H. G. Bissinger

#20. Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.

Danny Meyer

#21. I grew up in Los Angeles. I still remember when I was a junior in high school studying for the SATs. I had my job - I was actually a production assistant on a film - but on weekends, I would finish my prep tests on the beach.

Cody Horn

#22. I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#23. There's going to be a lesbian Brokeback Mountain and it's going to star Beyonce and Eva Longoria,

Chris McDaniel

#24. Remember when friends was friends, and LL had a Benz?
And cell phones and beepers was the new trends?
When Koch was the Mayor and Reagan was the Pres?

Biz Markie

#25. The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.

Mary Renault

#26. It would have been nice for Greg to eventually grow into a mature relationship with Laura. He was moving toward that already but then took a turn into the juvenile with Paige.

William Devane