Grades In School Quotes

• As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

  Erma Bombeck

  Children, Book, School

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• What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

  Chuck Grassley

  Children, Learning, School

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• Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Education, Learning

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• In grade school I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the one who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

  Julianne Moore

  Athlete, School, Kids

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

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• If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

  Vin Diesel

  School, Choices, Superhero

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• I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

  Dorothy Malone

  School, Born, Grades

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

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• In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart and started having friends.

  David Spade

  Funny, Smart, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

  Alan Shepard

  Sports, School, Yards

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• Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Sports, School

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• In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

  Kenny Marchant

  Children, School, Each Day

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• I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

  Jim Fowler

  Memories, Fall, School

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• If you are still in school, do not neglect your grades. Internships and other activities are fine, but when legal employers have to decide who to interview, grades play a big role in determining who makes that cut and who doesn't.

  Grover Cleveland

  School, Cutting, Play

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• I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Education, Motivation, Fear

  "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

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• We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

  Evelyn Waugh

  School, Class, Literature

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 1, ch. 1

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• You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all of that era where grades were out the window. But I did very well in school. I didn't really study the arts; I practiced the arts.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, School, Eras

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• I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

  Big Sean

  Rap, School, Type

  Source: www.gq.com

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• One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good.

  Bram Cohen

  Attitude, School, Care

  "Bram Cohen: Creator of BitTorrent". WrongPlanet.net, March 09, 2006.

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• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

  Levon Helm

  School, Trying, Grades

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• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  H. L. Hunt

  School, Thinking, Hunting

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• You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Moving, School

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• Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

  W. Edwards Deming

  School, Quota, Incentives

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• I got good grades in school, but I'm not sure if I'm smart or if it just means I can study. I've never taken one of those IQ tests, and I don't want to. It's so pointless. As long as you enjoy life and have fun and you're healthy and happy, that's what matters.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Fun, Smart, Taken

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• ...in the eyes of her oldest friends and colleagues and extended family, she wasn't a painfully thin seventy-five-year-old gray haired woman dying of cancer- she was a grade school class president, the young friend you gossiped with, a date or double date, someone to share a tent with in Darfur, a fellow election monitor in Bosnia, a mentor, a teacher you'd laughed within a classroom or a faculty lounge, or the board member you'd groaned with after a contentious meeting

  Will Schwalbe

  Teacher, Cancer, Eye

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• A church is an incubator, a nursery, a grade school. You start where people are and move them to where they need to be.

  Adrian Rogers

  Moving, School, People

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• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  Patrick Ewing

  School, Thinking, One Day

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