Fifth Grade Quotes

• I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

  Carrie Ann Inaba

  Cheating, Who I Am, Glasses

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• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

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• Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Made, Grades

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• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  Fiona Apple

  Sarcastic, Way, Said

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• My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.

  Ajay Naidu

  Teacher, Jobs, School

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• I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Graduation, Jealousy

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.

  Wendy Williams

  Kitchen, Sound, Fans

  "Wendy Williams Disses Beyonce: ‘She Sounds Like She Has A Fifth Grade Education’". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2012.

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• If we are always reading aloud something that is more difficult than children can read themselves then when they come to that book later, or books like that, they will be able to read them - which is why even a fifth grade teacher, even a tenth grade teacher, should still be reading to children aloud. There is always something that is too intractable for kids to read on their own.

  Mem Fox

  Teacher, Children, Reading

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• I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

  Lacey Chabert

  Taken, Party, School

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

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• But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.

  Meg Cabot

  Love You, Men, Looks

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Teen Idol”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

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• I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

  Chris Hardwick

  School, Chess, Grades

  "Self-help for nerds: advice from comedian Chris Hardwick". www.wired.com. October 21, 2011.

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• I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

  Ned Vizzini

  School, People, Able

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• I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Block, Dark

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.99, Macmillan

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• I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She’s never been right since. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baseball, Apologizing, Cold

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• In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

  David Levithan

  Senior, Jobs, Believe

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.179, Macmillan

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• A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.

  John Green

  My Best Friend, Olives, Facts

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.14, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson

  Rick Riordan

  War, School, Fields

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, School, Thinking

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.

  Pete Docter

  Moving, Ideas, Way

  "It's All In Your Head: Director Pete Docter Gets Emotional In 'Inside Out'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 10, 2015.

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• I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

  Greta Salpeter

  Crush, Song, Real

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• I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.

  Nico Tortorella

  School, Kids, Italian

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I did my first play in fifth grade. This same fifth grade teacher asked me several years later what I wanted to do when I grew up. I knew the most fun I'd had was doing the play in her class, so when I told her that, she began to take me to local theater auditions and became my mentor and friend, and to this day continues to be.

  Heather Hemmens

  Teacher, Fun, Years

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."

  Lizzo

  Children, Destiny, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Home, Eight, Israel

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloe Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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