High School Senior Quotes:

You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

- James Dean

topic: Dream, Forever, Today, Learn To Fly, Pursue Your Dreams

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

- Ann Patchett

source: Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

topic: Senior, School, Writing, Neurosurgeons, Path To Enlightenment

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

- Nicolas Jaar

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Senior, School, People, Headphones, High School Senior

As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately my high school offered a new course in B&W photography, so I opted for that instead of art, towards which I had an aversion. Composition is something that comes pretty naturally to me and I appreciate ordered chaos: the photo class turned out to be fun.

- Peter Menzel

topic: Senior, Photography, Art, High School Senior

When my daughter was a senior in high school, I remember noticing, almost in passing, that her friends were very cute. Which made me realize her friends' fathers probably found Molly very cute.

- Gene Weingarten

source: "Tuesdays with Moron: Chatological Humor update". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 8, 2015.

topic: Cute, Senior, Daughter, Very Cute, High School Senior

I began seriously concentrating on music study after I entered senior high school. I went to a class in the arts section at the YMCA and learned music theory and composition. Today, there are many classes like this available, but this was not so much the case in those days.

- Isao Tomita

topic: Senior, Art, School, Ymca, Music Theory

Being a senior in high school means you're not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that's applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world. It's never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around. Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.

- James Dean

topic: Senior, Dream, Thinking Of You, Joining The Military, Senior Year

Growing up in Boston, I was always Matt, Son of Former New England Patriot Don. And then when my brother Tim was a senior in high school, I became Matt, Brother of Tim.

- Matt Hasselbeck

topic: Senior, Brother, Growing Up, New England Patriots, High School Senior

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 remember I was in music class, I was a senior in high school, and my music teacher was like, "You should be a stand-up comic, you could imitate anyone.

- Heather McDonald

source: Source: summerfelix.com

topic: Senior, Teacher, School, Music Teacher, High School Senior

Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

- Betty Ford

topic: Friends, Senior, School, High School Senior

The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high school.

- Robert Hass

topic: Senior, Brother, Book, Brothers Karamazov, High School Senior

I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.

- Richard Foreman

topic: Senior, School, Aggravation, Junior High, High School Junior

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Senior, School, Years, Mack, High School Senior

What did that mean? Where could it go? He was a death diety. I was a high school senior.

- Meg Cabot

topic: Senior, School, Mean, High School Senior

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

- Alice Hoffman

topic: Senior, Stars, Real, The Next One, Sicilian

Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

- Sara Zarr

topic: Senior, Sorry, Real, First Boyfriend, High School Senior

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Senior, School, Careers, High School Senior

If you wait until your children are high school seniors to spring it on them that there's not a whole lot of money for school, they won't have too many options.

- Suze Orman

topic: Senior, Children, Spring, High School Senior

As a senior in high school, you figure out what you want to do with your life. I asked myself if I wanted to get back into acting and thought: 'Yes, but under my own terms and nothing like it was before.'

- Macaulay Culkin

topic: Senior, School, Acting, High School Senior