Guidance Counselor Quotes:

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

- Joseph Stiglitz

topic: Brother, Gone, Guidance, Counselor, Guidance Counselor

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at NYU, and I made a lot of television commercials - that's actually how I put myself through NYU and through college.

- Tom Ford

source: Interview with Jessica Hundley, www.askmen.com. December 11, 2009.

topic: Kids, College, Television Commercials, Eternal Sunshine, Guidance Counselor

A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing the behavior of young people in public schools. Behaviors that were normally handled by teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators are now dealt with by the police and the criminal justice system.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Teacher, School, Acceptance, Guidance Counselor

I think I was in high school, actually, and it was a guidance counselor or someone said, you know, you're just too loud; like you need to just stop talking so much and stop being so opinionated; like no one wants to listen to you because you're really annoying. And I'm glad that I didn't shut up, because it seems like people are listening.

- Jessica Valenti

source: Source: bigthink.com

topic: School, Thinking, Talking, Guidance Counselor

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

- Al Yankovic

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

topic: Kids, Years, Careers, Careers Choices, Guidance Counselor

That was a mistake, I guess, going out to California. They have these things called guidance counselors in high school. They drink a lot of herbal tea.

- Bonnie Jo Campbell

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Mistake, School, California, Guidance Counselor, Herbal Tea

God looks like a guidance counselor, God's got that smile. God says, 'How could this be? That's really odd I guess I'll have to check my records, silly me, you know, I'm only God.'

- Dar Williams

source: Song: Alleluia, Album: The Honesty Room

topic: Silly, Looks, Records, Silly Me, Guidance Counselor

I was born and raised in Pawnee City, Nebraska. I lived right next to the sale barn and I raised pigs. My dad was a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. He was also a preacher and did farming as well. We leased out our crop land but had cattle and horses.

- Larry the Cable Guy

source: Source: www.huskermax.com

topic: Horse, Dad, School, Guidance Counselor

Bridget who is crazy said that sometimes she thought about suicide when commercials come on during TV. She was sincere and this puzzled the guidance counselors.

- Stephen Chbosky

source: Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

topic: Suicide, Crazy, Tvs, Guidance Counselor

My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one job recommendation for my set of skills was an air traffic accident investigator, of which there are fewer than fifty in the world. The number two job was a museum curator for Chinese-American studies. The number three job was a circus clown.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1437, Simon and Schuster

topic: Jobs, School, Skills, Curator, Circus Clowns

A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer a youth away from his dream of becoming a poet, an artist, a musician or any other of thousands of things, because it offers no security, it does not pay well, there are no vacancies, it has no "future".

- Henry Wriston

topic: Music, Dream, Thinking, Guidance Counselor

Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic.

- Libba Bray

topic: Perfect, Way, Guidance, Guidance Counselor

Wow,” says Peter, “when your guidance counselor tells you to die, you really have problems.

- Adam Selzer

source: Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.120, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Wow, Problem, Guidance, Guidance Counselor

Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?

- Adam Selzer

source: Adam Selzer (2010). “I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked It”, p.83, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

topic: Kind, Guidance, Let Me, Guidance Counselor