Elementary School Quotes - Page 5

• I always wanted to play music, and always loved it. I saw a band come to school, when I was in elementary school, and wanted to play drums. I started playing drums at 11, and that's where it all started.

  Patty Schemel

  School, Play, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

  Christina Aguilera

  Stars, School, Miserable

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• My adolescence was quite miserable, when I look back on it, at least my early part of my adolescence. Because there was anti-Semitism in Peoria, and I didn't feel that when I was in elementary school.

  Betty Friedan

  School, Looks, Miserable

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up.

  Alonzo Bodden

  Airplane, School, Wish

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• I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s.

  Garth Brooks

  School, Oklahoma, Elephants

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• Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.

  Katy Rose

  School, Mean, Kids

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• I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.

  Andrew Solomon

  School, Years, Names

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Country, Lying

  Thomas Jefferson, Andrew M. Allison (1983). “The Real Thomas Jefferson”, Natl Center for Constitutional

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• I changed schools a lot when I was in elementary school because some girls were mean. They were less mean in middle school, because I was doing all right; although this one girl gave me invitations to hand out to her birthday party that I wasn't invited to.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Bullying, Party

  "I beat the bullying bitches… now I steer clear of suck-ups" by Emily Fairbairn, www.thesun.co.uk. March 07, 2013.

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• You have a teacher talking about his gayness. (The elementary school student) goes home then and says "Mom! What's gayness? We had a teacher talking about this today." The mother says "Well, that's when a man likes other men, and they don't like girls." The boy's eight. He's thinking, "Hmm. I don't like girls. I like boys. Maybe I'm gay." And you think, "Oh, that's, that's way out there. The kid isn't gonna think that." Are you kidding? That happens all the time. You don't think that this is intentional, the message that's being given to these kids? That's child abuse.

  Michele Bachmann

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  "Can Michele Bachmann Save Me?" by Michael Kimmel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I hate to say I'm a Cinderfella, but I've been watching the Globes since I was an embryo. I got a Facebook message from an elementary school friend who said, 'I remember you standing up and talking about attending the Golden Globes when we were little.

  Chris Colfer

  Hate, School, Remember You

  "'Glee's' Chris Colfer Decries Bullying in Golden Globes Speech" by Stacey Wilson Hunt , Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 16, 2011.

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• I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn’t bow down.

  Nicki Minaj

  Mean Girls, Hate, School

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• There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.

  Billy Dee Williams

  Daughter, Children, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

  Thom Yorke

  Revenge, School, Kids

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• I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an entrepreneur; you have to develop those skills day in day out. All entrepreneurial experiences are related, whether you're selling worm poop to Wal-Mart or a grade tracking application to the public elementary school system. In the end, it's all very similar.

  Tom Szaky

  Jobs, Business, Real

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• Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

  Thomas Sowell

  Educational, School, Skills

  "Cheap-Shot Journalism" by Thomas Sowell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 14, 2006.

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• If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  School, Government, Parent

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, cont”, p.543

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• When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

  Eunhyuk

  Soccer, Team, School

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• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, Thrill

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• The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, School, Law

  "Tolerance, Health and Fascism". townhall.com. August 27, 2013.

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• I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would always just, like, roll on the floor, like, just make it such a huge, melodramatic portrayal of whatever it was.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  School, Remember, Used

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 1, 2016.

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• I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasnt getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.

  Greg Grunberg

  School, Writing, Trying

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. February 27, 2007.

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• I haven't taught creative writing all that much (my CW teaching consists of a few summer workshops for elementary school children and an eight-week class for older adults), and I don't really know what my teaching style is yet.

  Mary J. Miller

  Summer, Children, Teaching

  Source: therumpus.net

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• From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college. I thought, "That's not actually something you do with your life." But then I was compelled to try it after college. I just got overcome.

  Lisa Kudrow

  School, College, Trying

  "New Again: Lisa Kudrow". Interview with Sara Switzer, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I remember, in elementary school, being asked what my father does and not knowing how to answer. When I asked my mom what I should say next time, she replied, "Just say he's self-employed." I love that.

  Yoshi Wada

  Mom, Father, School

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