There are at least five high schools named after Herbert Hoover, the 31st President of the United States:
- Herbert Hoover High School, in Des Moines, Iowa
- Herbert Hoover High School, in Glendale, California
- Herbert Hoover High School, in San Diego, California
- Herbert Hoover High School, in Clendenin, West Virginia
- Herbert Hoover High School, in Fresno, California
Famous quotes containing the words herbert hoover, herbert, hoover, high and/or school:
“The slogan of progress is changing from the full dinner pail to the full garage.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“All the historians are Harvard people. It just isn’t fair. Poor old Hoover from West Branch, Iowa, had no chance with that crowd; nor did Andrew Jackson from Tennessee. Nor does Lyndon Johnson from Stonewall, Texas. It just isn’t fair.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“I never went near the Wellesley College chapel in my four years there, but I am still amazed at the amount of Christian charity that school stuck us all with, a kind of glazed politeness in the face of boredom and stupidity. Tolerance, in the worst sense of the word.... How marvelous it would have been to go to a women’s college that encouraged impoliteness, that rewarded aggression, that encouraged argument.”
—Nora Ephron (b. 1941)