Grades Quotes - Page 10

• With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyos! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

  Jason Dolley

  Kids, People, One Day

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• I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Book, Writing, Seventh Grade

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• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  G-Eazy

  Hair, Back When, Sixth Grade

  "G-Eazy: 'I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop'". Interview with Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2014.

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• My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

  Bill Gates

  Summer, Thinking, Average

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• I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

  Chris Bosh

  Hate, Kids, Games

  "Not a Third Wheel: A GQ&A with Chris Bosh". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. January 12, 2012.

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• ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Book, School

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

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• A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

  Karl Kraus

  Education, Wine, School

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

  Anna Quindlen

  Spiritual, Prayer, Nice

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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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• Most of the girls I know are from my school. I've gone to school with the same people since fourth grade, so I can't wait to go to a place where I don't know anybody.

  Anton Yelchin

  Girl, School, People

  Interview with Diane Lane, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 8, 2009.

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• Around eighth grade I decided I wanted to be a composer and that's what I went to college for. Just a few years back, I switched out of composition and into creative writing so I could work with words.

  Joanna Newsom

  Writing, College, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there - and I was consumed with ambition.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Ambition, School, Acting

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Little children can learn anything, just as they can learn a foreign language. The mind is so absorbent then. There ought to be a real program to educate teachers who want to teach grade school children about history.

  David McCullough

  Teacher, Children, Real

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Singing, Levels

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.

  Peter Croft

  Sports, Adventure, Greatness

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• Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit.

  George Carlin

  Country, Cutting, America

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• ...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'

  Mark Twain

  Angel, Sarcasm, Men

  Mark Twain, Paul Baender (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.405, Univ of California Press

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• I always wanted to be someone in the entertainment industry. In my eighth grade slideshow, when everyone was like "show us what you want to be," everyone [said] doctor, lawyer, [but] mine literally said rapper. I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a superstar, I wanted to be on stage, I wanted to perform, I wanted to be in movies. But as you grow up, those dreams kind of fade away.

  Lilly Singh

  Dream, Growing Up, Rapper

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

  Mariah Carey

  Stuck

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• In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Library, Would Be

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• Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a child. I was in the fourth grade - the only American in my class - when our teacher wrote the words "America" and "Atomic Bomb" in white chalk on the blackboard. All forty Japanese children turned around to stare at me. My country had done something unforgivable and I had to take responsibility for it, all by myself. I desperately wanted to dig a hole under my desk, to escape my classmates' mute disbelief and never have to face them again.

  Linda Hoaglund

  Country, Teacher, Children

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Running, Talking, Weather

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

  Paul Achleitner

  Would Be, Body, American Universities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

  Herbert Hoover

  Successful, May, Success In Life

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• Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

  Eminem

  Stupid, Thinking, Three

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

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