High Quotes

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.

I had a hit single on the radio for 30 days before I graduated from high school.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

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

I followed the rules, and I was a high achiever.

I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points.

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?

I was a halfback on an American football team in Athens, Greece - the Kississia Colts - where I went to high school, and we took the Cup my senior year. The downside, and somewhat unfortunate piece of information I have to pass on, is there were only two teams in the league because of the limited amount of Americans.

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

My high school coach was Ray O'Conner. He has coached a lot of players that have signed professional contracts, and many of those have gone on to play in the major leagues.

Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.

For me there ain't no high heel high enough.

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity.

The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art.

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.

I don't know a high C from a low C.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

The willingness to learn new skills is very high.