Quotes About Growing Up High School

#1. Look, we ought to do this for our kids ... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

Robert D. Putnam

#2. I'm still not totally sure I know what's true about me.

Kenneth Logan

#3. It was duck apocalypse!

Kenneth Logan

#4. Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline.

Tony Taylor

#5. When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

Ashley Greene

#6. I was a better basketball player growing up in high school than I was a swimmer. Basketball to this day is my favorite sport.

Ryan Lochte

#7. Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point.

James Harden

#8. It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

Sara Zarr

#9. I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.

Charlotte Arnold

#10. I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Bill Paxton

#11. The same old dumb teachers teaching the same old dumb subjects in the same old dumb school. I seem to be kind of losing interest in everything. At first I thought high school would be fun but it's just dull. Everything's dull. Maybe it's because I'm growing up and life is becoming more blase.

Beatrice Sparks

#12. Why can't we just be nice? It's like, we grow up, and then we get right back into high school.

Jennifer Lawrence

#13. I was homeschooled growing up, and we fantasized about high school, about what that experience was going to be like.

Vanessa Ray

#14. Please your mother: just lie around upstairs and smoke some pot. Be a revolutionary.

Kenneth Logan

#15. I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.

Geoff Davis

#16. I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.

Philipp Meyer

#17. I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

Magda Apanowicz

#18. I played soccer growing up, and then high school came along and the football coach came out one day and was like, 'Hey, do you want to kick for us?' I was like, 'Sure, I'll come out and kick one day.' I got moved up to varsity and that's how the story began.

Kyle Brindza

#19. Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

Mallory Jansen

#20. I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

Kenneth Logan

#21. This was a factory, a sorting house. We were no different from dogs and pigs and cows: all of us were allowed to play when we were small, but then, just before reaching maturity, we were sorted and classified. Being a high school student was the first step toward becoming a domestic animal.

Ryu Murakami

#22. If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

Kenneth Logan

#23. Moving on should be a required high school class
because Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.

Taylor Rhodes

#24. I look back at pictures of myself and I remember thinking, "I was so fat when I was growing up. I was 165 pounds when I graduated from high school. I was a mess".

Viola Davis

#25. I could feel his hand on my waist, his arms around me, feel the rise and fall of his chest next to mine as I held my breath, and wished the sun would drop out of the sky.

Kenneth Logan

#26. Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.

Halsey

#27. I remember being asked when I was in high school what do I want to do when I grow up and the answer is so indicative - I would like to have been a successful playwright.

Mitchell Hurwitz

#28. I played football growing up in junior high and high school.

Ryan Merriman

#29. Now whenever I left class to go to the boys' room, I worried that I would end up on the blue tiled floor in a puddle of piss and blood.

Kenneth Logan

#30. I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when the discover life isn't always like High School Musical.

Zac Efron

#31. I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

Kelly Olynyk

#32. I'd always been a fan growing up, and in high school, I was really into Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen.

Bryan Hayes

#33. I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all.

T. J. Miller

#34. I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them ... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#35. I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didn't exist there.

Finn Wittrock

#36. Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!

Lizzy Plapinger

#37. I mean, I really liked him to the point where being around him was sort of wonderful and painful all at the same time, you know?

Kenneth Logan

#38. The first time I had a baked potato, I was eight years old at a friend's house. Most white kids growing up have a baked potato every day. I didn't even know what to do with it, how to open it. I was the only white kid in high school eating octopus.

Scott Fujita

#39. Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

Stark Sands

#40. If a fight looks like a lot of fun, you should be suspicious. 'If you ain't scared of standing up for what's right, you ain't standing up for much.

Kenneth Logan

#41. When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music departments. I always played in the orchestra, the jazz band, the marching band.

Flea

#42. Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

Matt Hasselbeck

#43. Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

Paula Deen