High Quotes

Each of our children during their high school years went to 'early morning seminary' - scripture study classes that met in the home of a church member every school day morning from 6:30 until 7:15.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful.

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

I was probably more scared of my high school exams than I was of the Oscars. At the time you think it's everything and if you don't do well, your life's over. Opportunities are gone. So the more you do it, the less the fear is present.

Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts.

I took six months off, finished high school, and hung out with friends.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

I think all villains have something in common: they have something that they need or want very, very badly. The stakes are very high and they are not bound by moral codes or being ethical, so they can do anything and will do anything to get what they want.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

I want to get away from the social vampires in Tucson. The people who have no lives of their own and meet me and know who I am and feel entitled to say negative things. I have good friends here, especially in the bands. But a lot of it is just like high school.

High school is just horrible in general. So, I think it was a good time for me to have stopped acting. I got to be normal in high school.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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

During the period of capital moving from one employment to another, the profits on that to which capital is flowing will be relatively high, but will continue so no longer than till the requisite capital is obtained.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that means we're getting enormous quantity of whistleblower disclosures of a very high caliber, but don't have enough people to actually process and vet this information.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

Alabama seniors all across the Third Congressional District continue facing high drug costs.

I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.

I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.