Quotes About High School Dropouts

#1. The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

T.D. Jakes

#2. Home. Let me come home. Home is whenever I'm with you.

Edward Sharpe

#3. Upstairs Margaret said abruptly, 'I suppose it starts to happen first in the suburbs,' and when Brad said, 'What starts to happen?' she said hysterically, 'People starting to come apart.

Shirley Jackson

#4. What I'm saying might be profane, but it's also profound.

Richard Pryor

#5. If we are going to persevere as committed disciples of Jesus Christ over the course of our lives, we must always keep the gospel of God's forgiveness through Christ before us.

Jerry Bridges

#6. I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.

Daniel Woodrell

#7. If you don't have passion, change.

Lauren Hutton

#8. Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share.

Jared Bernstein

#9. In January 2004, the number of unemployed American college graduates actually exceeded the number of unemployed high school dropouts.

Ken Robinson

#10. ...I'm as happy as a pig in mud, but I would have normally been as horrible, angry, and sad as a pig turned into bacon.

Aquila Robinson

#11. Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party ... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

Stockwell Day

#12. 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

#13. My brother Robert wanted to act from a very early age, and there was always a part of me that said we couldn't have two actors in the family because our parents would go mental. So I became a runner for the Robert Stigwood Organisation and, one way or another, worked my way up to movie publicist.

Philip Glenister

#14. Facts that we know do not always come to mind when we need them. People

Daniel Kahneman

#15. Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.

Nolan Bushnell

#16. Morality is a easy horse to ride when all the horses are just black and white.

Jury Nel

#17. One cannot refute Christianity; one cannot refute a disease of the eye.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Can one waste a life?

Andrew Holleran

#19. High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#20. The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University.

Fred Thompson