Alan King Quotes

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

I never finished high school. In fact, I hated going to school.

I never thrived in high school.

I dropped out or got kicked out of four high schools.

In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.

I was a kindergarten dropout.

I was a teenager, and I started to go to high school, and it was a disaster!

I failed every class up until I dropped out freshman year.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I never finished the ninth grade.

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.

I dropped out of high school four times between the ages of 12 to 17.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

Our youth of today, it is to be feared, is backward to learn; studies are accounted irksome.

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.

That's correct, I flunked out of high school twice because I couldn't write.

I did badly in high school. I don't know why, but I failed all my exams. Then I took them again.

I was thrown out of every school I ever went to.