Fifth Grade Quotes - Page 2

• I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.

  Reed Mullin

  Men, Long, Woody

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

  Jon Gordon

  School, Kids, Band

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• Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Baby, Teacher, Blue

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Teacher, Taught Us, Important

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• In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."

  George Carlin

  Growing Up, Yearbook, Names

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

  Richard A. Falk

  Science, Tools, Sophisticated

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• The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Rap, Levels

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Book, Library, Grades

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.

  Matthew Morrison

  Gay, People, Dancing

  Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. December 18, 2009.

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• I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.

  Busy Philipps

  Fall, Character, Kids

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

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• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

  David Boies

  Summer, Boys, Years

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• Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up.

  Linda Hunt

  Growing Up, Care, Sixth Grade

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• My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.

  Andrew Dost

  Dad, Mean, Mind

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• I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.

  Miranda Cosgrove

  Teacher, Home, School

  "Despicable me". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 5, 2010.

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• I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.

  Theophilus London

  Dad, Clothes, Manhattan

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• I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Orange, Forgiving, Lists

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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