Grades Quotes - Page 8

• The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

  Brian J. White

  Reading, Book, Past

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• My brother was a year younger than I am and he was never in the home with me hardly at all, ... My mom had to take him to every school there possibly was to get him some education. He ended up first in Columbus, Ohio, for grade school, then went to a high school for the deaf and Galludet in Washington.

  Les Miles

  Mom, Brother, Home

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• The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Character, Color, Land

  Theodore Roosevelt (2000). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter”, p.108, Modern Library

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• I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

  Steve Wozniak

  Teacher, Giving, Important

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that they have in them some strange power for good. This can be no more than high-grade magic. It will pay us to search our own hearts thoroughly to discover just why we use these words.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Magic, Association

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• How could you feel worthless when God has honoured you by creating you and choosing you to be with Him, in this life and the next? You are worthy. You are worthy of love. You are worthy of respect. You haven't failed. You're beautiful. Only the beautiful can see beauty. Never doubt your beauty. Never doubt your worth. It's not about how much you make, your grades, what people say or think. It's about you and God. It's about your heart. The blinding beauty of your heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Beautiful, Love You, Heart

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• I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

  Michael Steger

  School, Kids, Years

  "‘90210’ Star Michael Steger Opens Up About Childhood Bullying: ‘You Feel Like You’re Going To Die’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Congress is like first grade, only not as well behaved.

  Sean Patrick Maloney

  Firsts, Congress, Wells

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• In the end all that matters is climbing and pushing your personal limits. No matter the grade, if you climb something that was hard for you, then that's sick.

  Jimmy Webb

  Climbing, Sick, Pushing

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• My third grade teacher called my mother and said, 'Ms. Cox, your son is going to end up in New Orleans in a dress if we don't get him into therapy.' And wouldn't you know, just last week I spoke at Tulane University, and I wore a lovely green and black dress.

  Laverne Cox

  Mother, Teacher, Son

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• My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.

  Ellen Goodman

  Fitness, Stress, Guilt

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

  John Green

  Children, Thinking, Genius

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• Revolution is man's normal activity, and if he is wise he will grade it slowly so that it may be almost imperceptible - otherwise it will jerk in fits and starts and cause discomfort.

  Freya Stark

  Change, Wise, Men

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

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• We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Firsts, Graduates

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.15, Open Road Media

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• There was some sort of maze-learning experiment involved in my final grade and since I remember the rat who was my colleague as uncooperative, or perhaps merely incompetent at being a rat, or tired of the whole thing, I don't remember how I passed.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Education, Tired, Science

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• our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.

  Merrill Markoe

  Girl, Running, Boys

  Merrill Markoe (1992). “What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned”, Viking Press

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• Grade school was perilous. ... I can see how I must have worried them. I was the kind of kid who, for no apparent reason, wept piteously or threw up on myself. On an especially scary day, I sometimes did both.

  Sue Grafton

  School, Kids, Scary

  Sue Grafton (1991). “"G" is for Gumshoe”, Fawcett

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• The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Education, States, Third Grade

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.29, Vintage

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• I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

  Louis Sachar

  Teacher, Children, Book

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• The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

  Richard Mottram

  People, Grain, Honour

  "Sir Humphrey Reveals His Dusty Springfield Side" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

  Jon Appleton

  Giving, Parent, Pressure

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.

  Vance Havner

  Trying, Needs, Preacher

  Vance Havner (1948). “"That I May Know Him,": A Personal Testimony”

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• In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.

  Samantha Abeel

  Feelings, Faces, Seventh Grade

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• The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Years, Three, Cost

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• I've been painting off and on since I was in sixth grade. I don't paint when I'm acting - I'm not really able to split my focus that way. I do it intensely when I'm doing it, but I'm reluctant to take myself too seriously as a painter because that would mean there would be pressure to be better than I am.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Mean, Focus, Acting

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