Grades Quotes - Page 27

• I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

  Leo Howard

  Fun, People, Needs

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• And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Hate, Loss

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• When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

  Barbara Johnson

  Sleep, Home, Giving

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Since her retirement from teaching Miss Beryl's health had in many respects greatly improved, despite her advancing years. An eighth-grade classroom was an excellent place to snag whatever was in the air in the way of illness. Also depression, which, Miss Beryl believed, in conjunction with guilt, opened the door to illness. Miss Beryl didn't know any teachers who weren't habitually guilty and depressed-guilty they hadn't accomplished more with their students, depressed that very little more was possible.

  Richard Russo

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Richard Russo (2017). “Nobody's Fool”, p.386, Atlantic Books

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• The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing Hillary Clinton. Because she could lose. The reason is not that she's a woman. The reason is that she's the particular woman who taught the 4th grade class that every man in America wished he were dead in. Hillary Clinton is Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown. Hillary Clinton is "America's ex-wife."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Football, Moon, Men

  "Letter to Our European Friends" by P. J. O'Rourke, www.weeklystandard.com. February 4, 2008.

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• Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

  Charlie Brooker

  Destiny, Numbers, Letters

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.220, Faber & Faber

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• Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.

  John Rosemond

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

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• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  Laura Mvula

  Parent, Theory, Instruments

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• I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

  Bob Uecker

  Years, Three, Best Year

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• The low-grade plagiarism of popularity will never lead you to true contentment.

  T. D. Jakes

  Contentment, Popularity, Plagiarism

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• At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Girl, Math, Boys

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• We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Golf, Trying, Principles

  "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.14), 1991.

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• In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

  Kendall Jenner

  Jewels, House, Stories

  "Kendall Jenner & Kylie Jenner Talk Dating Deal-Breakers, Athletic Ability For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2013.

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• In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

  Andy Rubin

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  "Android Chief Says Your Phone Should Not Be Your Assistant" by Ina Fried, allthingsd.com. October 19, 2011.

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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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• One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Humble, Anxiety, Feelings

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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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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• My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

  Chesley Sullenberger

  Mother, Teacher, Reading

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• The teachers liked me. In grade school, they make you copy pictures from books. I think the first one was Robert Louis Stevenson.

  Andy Warhol

  Teacher, Book, School

  Andy Warhol, Mark Francis, Mattjis Visser, Museum Kunst Palast (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (2004). “Andy Warhol: the late work”, Prestel Publishing

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• When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."

  Lizzo

  Children, Destiny, Rocks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

  Bill Cosby

  Teacher, Mistake, School

  "Bill Cosby Is Glad He Was Born, and So Are We". Interview, www.beliefnet.com.

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• I feel very fortunate that I'm doing what I wanted to do from the third grade on. I became very interested in the sports broadcasting aspect even at that early age. I'd turn down the sound on the TV and do games in my house - and probably get everybody looking for me to go into a room and lock the door so they didn't have to hear it.

  Marv Albert

  Sports, Games, Doors

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• I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

  Charlie Munger

  Teacher, Drinking, School

  Charlie Munger's comments on economic matters at the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 30, 2005.

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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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