High Quotes

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

The girls in high school who watched 90210? I was watching Seinfeld.

People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood.

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

I was editor of my high school literary magazine and a reporter for the school newspaper.

So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.

The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

There are many examples in high schools which show something about the effects such competition might have.

Men often are valued high, when they are most wretched.

In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

I'm not high maintenance.

In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

Today the salaries of stars are astronomical in comparison with the 20's, but the high cost of today's living and taxes takes a huge bite out of these salaries.

I had older brothers and sisters who were high achievers, and I felt different, misunderstood by my family. That's not my family's fault; it was my perception.

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.