Whitman High School

Famous quotes containing the words high school, whitman, high and/or school:

“When I was in high school I thought a vocation was a particular calling. Here’s a voice: “Come, follow me.” My idea of a calling now is not: “Come.” It’s like what I’m doing right now, not what I’m going to be. Life is a calling.”
—Rebecca Sweeney (b. 1938)

“O magnet-south! O glistening, perfumed South! my South!
O quick mettle, rich blood, impulse and love! Good and evil! O all dear
to me!”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“Behind one high mountain lies yet a higher one.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It was Mabbie without the grammar school gates.
And Mabbie was all of seven.
And Mabbie was cut from a chocolate bar.
And Mabbie thought life was heaven.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)