Fifth Graders Quotes

If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

Peter Lynch

Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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Like any normal fifth grader, I preferred my villains to be evil and stay that way, to act like Dracula rather than Frankenstein's monster, who ruined everything by handing that peasant girl a flower. He sort of made up for it by drowning her a few minutes later, but, still, you couldn't look at him the same way again.

David Sedaris

Girl, Flower, Evil

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I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would.

Steve Wozniak

Teacher, Teaching, Kids

"A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.

Steve Wozniak

Teaching, Years, Skills

Source: www.npr.org

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I dress and eat like a fifth-grader, basically. I like sandwiches and cereal and hooded sweatshirts.

Peter Dinklage

Cereal, Dresses, Sandwiches

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

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My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

George Smoot

Names, Fifth, Smarter

"Nobel physicist Smoot smarter than a 5th-grader" by Tanya Schevitz, www.sfgate.com. January 3, 2010.

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