Valedictorians Quotes:

I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.

- Twyla Tharp

topic: School, Choices, Valedictorians

I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot.

- Marlon Wayans

source: Interview with Luis Gomez, www.chicagotribune.com. January 11, 2013.

topic: Smart, School, Fighting, Valedictorians

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

- Christina Hoff Sommers

topic: Girl, Running, Powerful, Valedictorians

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars, have a horrendous performance record in later life.

- John Taylor Gatto

topic: Children, Secret, Honor, Valedictorians

For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of ***** across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

- Steve King

source: "Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

topic: Memorable, Marijuana, People, Calves, Valedictorians

This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.

- Nick Kroll

topic: Teacher, Giving, Perfect, Contentious, Valedictorians

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

- Melinda Gates

topic: College, Goal, Way, Good College, Valedictorians

I wasn't creative or theatrical. I was just doing everything. I was head cheerleader, valedictorian - it was ridiculous!

- Terry Gilliam

source: "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

topic: Creative, Ridiculous, Cheerleader, Valedictorians

I'm much more of a kid now than I was when I was a kid. I was the kind of kid who was valedictorian, a straight-A student. My mom used to say, "Please stop studying and get outside."

- Carla Gugino

source: "A little white lie made Carla Gugino Troop Beverly Hills' tallest scout". Interview with Erik Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2015.

topic: Mom, Kids, Students, Valedictorians

I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.

- Nick Kroll

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: School, Long, Speech, Contentious, Valedictorians

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production.

- Jennifer Garner

topic: Opposites, Looks, Way, Valedictorians, Bad Grades

There's got to be a point where we fix the system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration and show respect for people, a kid who might have been here for 10 years, that might be a valedictorian of their high school to say, no, no, no you're not allowed to go to college. I just think there's a point past which we are over the line.

- Jeb Bush

source: "Megyn Kelly previews her exclusive interview with Jeb Bush". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, www.foxnews.com. May 11, 2015.

topic: School, Kids, Past, Legal Immigration, Valedictorians

For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of ***** across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Kings, Children, Marijuana, Valedictorians

Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

- Christine Lavin

topic: Children, Class, Abuse, Eighth Grade, Valedictorians

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

- Richard Carmona

source: "From High School Dropout To Medical School Valedictorian" by Dr. Richard Carmona, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 20, 2009.

topic: Smart, Believe, School, Medical School, Valedictorians

Being #1 on MSN is like being Valedictorian of summer school.

- Craig McDonald

topic: Summer, School, Marketing, Online Marketing, Summer School

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

- Mathew Staver

topic: Graduation, Gratitude, Rights, Gratitude To God, Constitutional Rights

Gotta have safety at our borders. We're a sovereign nation, gotta protect our borders. Make sure the workplace doesn't become a magnet for folks to be hired without the authorization. And then let's be realistic and sensible about how we approach all those folks who made America their home, established businesses, have children who have gone on to be valedictorians at their high school - and let's do these things in a very sensible way.

- Xavier Becerra

topic: Children, School, Home, Valedictorians

America may be the best country in the world, but that's kind of like being the valedictorian of summer school.

- Dennis Miller

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

topic: Summer, Country, School, Summer School, Valedictorians