Terry McMillan Quotes

Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. the greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.

I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

High school was really fun. I had lots of friends, I had activities, like basketball teams.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

High school, you don't want to go back and do it over again.

They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I received my primary and secondary education in Chicago.

My freshman year of high school I joined the chess and math clubs.

I loved high school. I had the best high school experience of all time. I know that's not a common feeling, but it's the best. You're like, you know, 14 and expressing yourself on a daily basis creatively? That's pretty incredible.

High school was so much fun, and it wasn't a wreck at all.

I was a good student in school.

How you do in school determines how you do in life.

I'm one of those people who really liked high school. I know that might not be a popular thing to say, but it was fun, and I enjoyed my friends.

I played sports. I had boyfriends. I loved high school.

All I did was go to school and play golf. I didn't have much of a social life.

I want to have a normal high-school experience.

Of course I had hundreds of crushes on boys!

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

When I was growing up, I was focused on football and school.

Today, 8 million adult Americans, more than the entire population of Michigan, have not finished 5 years of school. Nearly 20 million have not finished 8 years of school. Nearly 54 million - more than one-quarter of all America - have not even finished high school.

We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

Let us have "sweet girl graduates" by all means. They will be none the less sweet for a little wisdom; and the "golden hair" will not curl less gracefully outside the head by reason of there being brains within.

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.