After High School Quotes:

Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still — that's how you build a future.

- Arthur Miller

source: Arthur Miller (2009). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.138, A&C Black

topic: Summer, Morning, School, Life After High School, Shirt Off

I got out of Las Vegas after high school. I knew that if I stayed there, I wouldn't have been able to pursue my dreams as an actor or dancer. My family always told me to dream big, so I made sure that I got out of there and explored new places, because the world is huge. And I'm still learning new things every day in this business and in my life.

- Rutina Wesley

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Dream, School, Dancer, After High School

I got a new 4-track cassette recorder a year or so after high school. For a while I would just stare at it thinking, how am I going to do this if I don't play guitar or keyboards? How am I going to write and record a song if I don't know how to play any instruments? I mean, I played the violin, but I didn't know anything about how to work a 4-track.

- Petra Haden

topic: Song, Writing, School, Recorders, Cassettes

After high school I went to the San Francisco Art Institute, and I began a formalized art education where we went through the history of art but we also went through the art of my contemporaries.

- Kehinde Wiley

topic: Art, School, San Francisco, After High School

After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.

- Doug Rice

source: Source: www.expatarrivals.com

topic: School, College, Years, Aspens, After High School

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

- Micky Dolenz

topic: School, Auditions, Facts, Life After High School, After High School

I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.

- Nick Flynn

source: "'Being Flynn': When Dad Needs To Take Shelter". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. February 29, 2012.

topic: Crazy, School, Writing, Life After High School, After High School

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professionally throughout college. I actually got my SAG card in college.

- Zachary Knighton

source: "Happy Beginnings and 'Happy Endings' for Zachary Knighton". Interview with Jessica Gardner, www.backstage.com. February 23, 2012.

topic: School, College, Stuff, Life After High School, After High School

There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.

- Camilla Luddington

source: "Camilla Luddington As Lara Croft" by James Fell, www.askmen.com.

topic: School, Trying, Weight, Life After High School, After High School

When I went to Los Angeles right after high school, I got some acting jobs, and I never, ever wanted to be an actress! Public speaking and acting make me want to vomit. But I have never been nervous singing. When it comes to public speaking, I stumble on my words, sweat, and pull at my clothes.

- Kelly Clarkson

source: "Ray Liotta On 'Goodfellas,' Acting And His Return To TV". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. September 2, 2016.

topic: Jobs, School, Sweat, Life After High School, After High School

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school.

- Rosemarie DeWitt

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: School, Towns, Kind, Life After High School, After High School

Around middle school I studied jazz guitar and ended up playing in a jazz band for a bit. But, after high school, I haven't even touched a guitar.

- Mike Tucker

topic: School, Guitar, Band, Jazz Band, Life After High School

I hated leaving a hole in the smoking world, and so I recruited someone to take my place. People have given me a lot of grief, but I'm pretty sure that after high school, this girl would have started anyway, especially if she chose the army over community college.

- David Sedaris

topic: Girl, Grief, School, Life After High School, Community College

The Summer after high school, when we first met, we make out in your Mustang, to Radiohead, and on my 18th birthday, we got matching tattoes, Used to steal your parents liquor, then climb to the roof, Talk about our future like we had a clue, Never thought I'd wondering I'd be losing you In another life, I would be your belle

- Katy Perry

topic: Summer, School, Parent, Make Out, Belle

What happens when you get hurt? Take that kid at Kentucky, Nerlens Noel, who could have turned pro after high school.Who knows what's going to happen? How the operation is going to go? The only thing I do know is that he would have been a top pick in the draft last year, and he'd have millions of dollars in the bank.

- Sonny Vaccaro

topic: Hurt, Kids, School, Life After High School, After High School

After the NBA and ABA merged, players could come out after high school. Still, there were only a few cases prior to Kevin Garnett coming out in 1995, so Nike and the other companies were only involved in the college game.

- Sonny Vaccaro

topic: Nike, School, Player, Life After High School, After High School

I started piano lessons at age six but didn't take music seriously until I was a teenager, when I thought about a career in music. I studied classical music, and my instruments were guitar and piano. I played keyboards in bands, and after high school I went to Vienna to study at the Academy of Music. I also became a session player, which culminated in my work with Tangerine Dream.

- Paul Haslinger

topic: Dream, Teenager, School, Life After High School, Tangerines

I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas

- Paul Taylor

topic: School, Vegas, Colorado, After High School

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

- Evan Williams

topic: School, College, Years, After High School

I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

- Morten Tyldum

topic: School, Calling, Manhattan, Film School, After High School

As a senior, you may be wondering what you want to do with your life after high school. College? Travel? Get a job? Options are limitless, but it will be good to have a plan. Use the high school senior quotes about life below to come up with ideas on what you want to make of yourself after high school. The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Senior, Morning, Jobs, Life After High School, Morning Dew

I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

- Dianna Agron

topic: Teaching, School, College, Life After High School, Dance Class

I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics.

- James Patterson

topic: Jobs, Crazy, Book, Life After High School, After High School

In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.

- Michael Jai White

source: "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

topic: Teacher, Fun, School, Puppet Shows, Acting Classes

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

- Michael N. Castle

topic: School, College, Historical, Colleges And Universities, After High School

When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

- Cesar Pelli

topic: Art, School, Careers, Liberal Arts Education, Life After High School

Before Girls on Ice, mountains were just mountains. Valleys were just valleys. Now when I see them they're full of questions and stories. Girls on Ice encouraged a new kind of curiosity in me about things I would have thought boring before. Now I'm considering to pursue Geology after high school. Girls on Ice opened a door to new thoughts and interests for me to consider for my future.

- Chloe Smith

topic: Girl, School, Doors, Geology, Life After High School

I think things get a lot better after high school. I think the ones that struggle during that time tend to have better experiences after.

- Molly Shannon

topic: Struggle, School, Thinking, After High School

There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

- Matthew Quick

topic: Strong, School, Ideas, Leonard Peacock, Life Partner

I made the decision to take acting seriously after high school.

- Mary-Kate Olsen

topic: School, Decision, Acting, Life After High School, After High School

After high school, I had $2,000 saved, and I packed everything I could into my '95 Nissan Sentra with no air-conditioning, and I drove out to L.A.

- Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

topic: School, Air, Conditioning, Life After High School, After High School

The percentage of couples who stay together after high school is, like, less than five percent, you guys.

- Simone Elkeles

topic: Couple, School, Guy, Life After High School, After High School

As a matter of fact, I decided in high school that I was going to go to the seminary. And I did study with the Paulist Fathers for two years after high school in full anticipation of becoming a priest.

- Bob Gunton

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Father, School, Years, After High School, Seminary

I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.

- Stephanie Szostak

topic: Teenager, School, Golf, After High School

After high school, I was going to move out to L.A. and try to pursue my dreams of acting. My parents said, Thats fine. We support you, but you have to go to school, which was fine because Im a studious person anyway; I enjoy it.

- Josie Loren

source: "Exclusive Interview: MIOBI's Josie Loren". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. May 26, 2011.

topic: Dream, Moving, School, After High School

I contracted malaria in rural Mozambique. I was a youth ambassador for Australia. For a year after high school, you give positive speeches about Australia and as part of it I traveled to lots of different countries.

- Rebel Wilson

topic: Country, School, Years, Mozambique, Different Countries

Zip codes might be great for sorting mail, but they should not determine the quality of a child s education or success in the future workforce," said Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. "With common standards and assessments, students, parents, and teachers will have a clear, consistent understanding of the skills necessary for students to succeed after high school and compete with peers across the state line and across the ocean.

- Bob Wise

topic: Wise, Teacher, Children, Workforce, West Virginia