Grades In School Quotes - Page 3

• I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  School, Library, Grades

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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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• I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.

  Debbie Macomber

  School, Opportunity, College

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• My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye

  Thom Yorke

  School, Eye, Lazy

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• At some point you cannot be the kid in the glass bubble in this world. You might've heard throughout your grade school and high school years that it was a safe, nice, warm, fair, feeling place... but it can get brutal when it gets competitive. Especially when you succeed. Watch the detractors come out of the walls at that point.

  Dennis Miller

  Wall, Nice, School

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• I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Girl, New York, School

  "Chloe Sevigny Men’s Collection". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 7, 2009.

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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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• I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.

  Nate Berkus

  Mother, School, Rooms

  "Intriguing people for December 16, 2009" by Jay Kernis, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.

  Dan Savage

  Children, War, School

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• I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

  Alexander Haig

  School, Warrior, Years

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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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• I did plays in grade school.

  Colin Hanks

  School, Play, Grades

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

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• In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

  Jeff Hawkins

  School, People, United States

  "America’s Shameful Moments" by Jeff Hawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I failed public speaking in grade school, 'cause I was so nervous and scared.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  School, Causes, Scared

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• We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

  Jack White

  School, White, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I would not call myself Catholic anymore, but I went to 16 years of Catholic school: grade school, high school and college.

  William Mapother

  School, College, Years

  "Going on From Lost, Actor William Mapother Heads to Another Earth". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.

  Debbie Macomber

  Teacher, School, Said

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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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• You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Teacher, School, Math

  "Some Educators Question If Advanced Math Should Be Required". "All Things Considered" with Kelly Mcevers, www.npr.org. March 3, 2016.

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• I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was somewhere hot. I was always twice the size of the other kids, and she used to say to me: count to ten before you get mad, Reacher. And I've counted way past ten on this one. Way past.

  Lee Child

  Teacher, School, Kids

  Lee Child (2006). “Die Trying: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.95, Penguin

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• All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.

  Aeriel Miranda

  School, Years, People

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• We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now.” A whole culture is being infantilised.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Strong, Queens, Children

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• The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, School, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.487, Simon and Schuster

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• If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Thinking, Should Have

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