Grades Quotes - Page 11

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

  Bitsie Tulloch

  School, Library, Wanted

  6 Copy quote

• Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."

  Henry Louis Gates

  Beautiful, Country, Real

  "Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 21, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up in my mom's third grade classroom and always helping her, and I also got a passion for kids that way.

  Allyson Felix

  Mom, Passion, Kids

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.

  Jim Carrey

  Teacher, Smart, Class

  19 Copy quote

• I was always the class clown, although many teachers view the class clown as a trouble maker. But I always had good grades, so the only thing my parents were told was that while I was intelligent, I talked too much.

  Godfrey

  Teacher, Intelligent, Views

  4 Copy quote

• My life was definitely going into a nosedive. When my parents separated (and) divorced when I was fifteen, I definitely lost my bearings and was completely out of control. My grades were plummeting. I had no direction. I was a pretty angry teenager (and) somewhat destructive. So, I broke down in a church when I was 18 and turned my life over to God, thankfully.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Teenager, Parent, Church

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have wanted to sing for as long as I can remember. Literally, since maybe the second grade. I don't think there was one turning point where I said, "This is it".

  Lauren Hart

  Thinking, Long, Remember

  Source: bleacherreport.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I grew up as a fan of the original Star Trek series. When I was in middle school, I think in the 6th grade, I remember going to a book fair and finding a book called The Making of Star Trek, by Stephen Whitfield, and I grabbed it and took and home and just devoured it, over and over again. It was a really influential book. It was very nuts and bolts.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Stars, Book, Home

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A teacher asked us if anybody knew the names of the continents. I was sooo excited. I was like, Damn it! It's my first day of 7th grade, I'm in junior high and I know this answer. So I raised my hand, I was the first one, and I said A-E-I-O-U!

  Jessica Simpson

  Teacher, Hands, Names

  9 Copy quote

• Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

  Pat Paulsen

  Children, School, Ends

  5 Copy quote

• I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own

  Hines Ward

  School, Responsibility, House

  11 Copy quote

• Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.

  Chris Bosh

  Home, Parent, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Satisfaction, Academic, Wanted

  5 Copy quote

• When I was in seventh grade, I totally had a crush on a guy who was older than me, and he listened to alternative music. So he was into Days of the New and stuff like that, and more poppy stuff, too, like Matchbox Twenty.

  Carrie Underwood

  Crush, Guy, Twenties

  4 Copy quote

• Blacks can get into medical school with a lower grade ... If that's true, a Jew should be able to play basketball with a lower net.

  Jackie Mason

  Basketball, School, Play

  55 Copy quote

• I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.

  Mehmet Oz

  Husband, Father, Thinking

  5 Copy quote

• Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they often seem to thrive during the first few years. It is sometimes not until the third grade that their teachers start to see the warning signs of failure. By the fourth grade many children see it too.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teacher, Children, School

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.70, Broadway Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a culture of technique, we often confuse authority with power, but the two are not the same. Power works from the outside in, but authority works from the inside out. . . . I am painfully aware of the times in my own teaching when I lose touch with my inner teacher and therefore with my own authority. In those times I try to gain power by barricading myself behind the podium and my status while wielding the threat of grades. . . . Authority comes as I reclaim my identity and integrity, remembering my selfhood and my sense of vocation.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Teaching

  40 Copy quote

• In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Children, School, Mean

  Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). “Colored People”, p.20, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Alexander Haig

  School, Warrior, Years

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  19 Copy quote

• 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

  18 Copy quote

• I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

  Steve Carell

  School, Boys, Bits

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. August 16, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.

  Kris Allen

  School, Ukulele, Littles

  4 Copy quote

• My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

  John Barrasso

  Dad, School, Mean

  7 Copy quote