Ninth Grade Quotes

• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

  Scott Hamilton

  Teacher, Grades, Smarter

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• The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

  Bubba Smith

  Sports, Grades

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• I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

  Kristin Lehman

  Class, President, Grades

  "Q&A – Kristin Lehman (Gwen Eaton)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television Commercials, Firsts, Grades

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• My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Florida, Parent

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• When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

  Ryan Sypek

  Baseball, Real, Play

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Home, Math

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• If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Eye, Differences

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

  Eminem

  Mother, Growing Up, Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Latin, Grades, Havens

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• From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.

  Kevin Maney

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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

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• I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.53, Macmillan

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• ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes weren't open you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking' It hadn't meant meant much to me at the time. After all there'd been a guy in the class that i liked so how could i be expected to pay attention to literary analysis? Now three year later i understand the poem perfectly.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Writing, Eye

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Sorry, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.87, Penguin

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• I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

  George Carlin

  School, Needs, Study

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

  Jessica Stroup

  School, Nine, Grades

  "EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Stroup Dishes on 90210". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2009.

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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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• Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Volleyball, Children, School

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• When I think about that kind of spirit, I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit, because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

  Wendy Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Children

  "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

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• It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

  Craig Finn

  Beautiful, Song, Morning

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• I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why.
  Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school,
  ...I went to school high.

  Sheek Louch

  Rap, School, Drunk

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• You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Dad, Mean, Cat

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

  Heather Brewer

  Two, Vampire, Garlic

  Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.140, Penguin

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