Elementary School Quotes - Page 2

• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  Sally Ride

  School, Space, Juniors

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• I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

  Zosia Mamet

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

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

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• I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the morning, what door you used going home, when you could talk in the library, how many paper towels you could use in the rest room, and how many drinks of water you could get during recess. And there was always somebody watching to make sure. What I'm finding out about growing older is that there are just as many rules about lots of things, but there's nobody watching.

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  Morning, Home, School

  Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Alice in Rapture, Sort Of”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.

  Jason Mewes

  School, Play, School Plays

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

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• I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.

  Bob Filner

  Children, School, Years

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• I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.

  Fritz Sauckel

  School, Secondary School

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• I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

  Martha Reeves

  School, People, Training

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• ...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.

  James McBride

  New York, Sibling, School

  James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.146, A&C Black

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• That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair.

  Jane Lynch

  Women, Teaching, School

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• I knew Pluto was popular among elementary schoolkids, but I had no idea they would mobilize into a 'Save Pluto' campaign. I now have a drawer full of hate letters from hundreds of elementary schoolchildren (with supportive cover letters from their science teachers) pleading with me to reverse my stance on Pluto. The file includes a photograph of the entire third grade of a school posing on their front steps and holding up a banner proclaiming, 'Dr. Tyson - Pluto is a Planet!'

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Hate, School

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• My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

  Christine Quinn

  Mother, Fun, Party

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• No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Reading, School

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• In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

  Warren Hutcherson

  Funny, School, Humor

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• When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum, in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today and it's called the Internet.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Mother, Growing Up, School

  "Legal System Treats Celebs Differently, Dershowitz Says". Interview with Chris Cuomo, sports.yahoo.com. September 17, 2012.

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• I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it.

  Larry Page

  Teacher, Confused, School

  "Persons of the Week: Larry Page and Sergey Brin" by Peter Jennings, abcnews.go.com.

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• Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine; spend a morning at an elementary school; go to work two hours early; test drive an exotic car; attend a city council meeting; ...try an Indonesian recipe.

  Roger von Oech

  Inspirational, Morning, School

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• Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder.
  We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school.
  But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  School, Men, Doe

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• We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Dream, Memories, School

  Banana Yoshimoto (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.117, Grove Press

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• I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.27, Penguin

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• The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

  Christine Quinn

  Dog, Kings, School

  "Leave a Place Setting for Ann". Interview with Philip Galanes, www.nytimes.com. May 9, 2013.

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• 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

  Smart, School, Fighting

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

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• Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective.

  Dennis Prager

  School, College, Perspective

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• Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

  Sam Harris

  School, Men, Our World

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Ministers of the Gospel are excluded [from serving as Visitors of the county Elementary Schools] to avoid jealousy from the other sects, were the public education committed to the ministers of a particular one; and with more reason than in the case of their exclusion from the legislative and executive functions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, School, Visitors

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