Third Grade Quotes

• One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since.

  Beverly Cleary

  Book, Reading, Sunday

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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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• Soft rock music isn’t rock, and it ain’t music. It’s just soft.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Rocks

  "Napalm and Silly Putty". Book by George Carlin, 2001.

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• You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala.

  George Carlin

  Guatemala, Fruit, Tropical

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

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• I miss third grade because you could kill people in dodgeball. Remember the rules to dodgeball? If you're fat or have glasses, don't show up because you'll die.

  Jay Mohr

  Glasses, People, Missing

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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, Grades

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

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• Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

  Ester Dean

  Cousin, School, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

  Sebastian Arcelus

  Monkeys, Break, Bigs

  "THE LEADING MEN: Arcelus and Morrison". Interview with Tom Nondorf, www.playbill.com. May 01, 2007.

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• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  Brittany Snow

  Sound, Lame, May

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• When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Years, People

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

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• As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

  Jenna Bush

  Teacher, Kids, Differences

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• 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

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• My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.

  Benjamin Carson

  Mother, Fashion, Jobs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

  Big Sean

  Rap, School, Type

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Basketball, Matter, Pressure

  Interview with Erykah Badu, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 23, 2013.

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• My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.

  Arj Barker

  School, Class, Parent

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• I was a kid in the third grade ... saw a dummy in the toy store. In the '60s and '70s there were a lot of those vinyl ventriloquism dummies - just about every toy store had one. Everyone close to my age that I've talked to, especially guys for some reason, tell me that they had one too, but they said they never could do it. So many people come up to me and say that. It was just something that I thought was cool. I started doing book reports with it - I developed the skill. I easily got A's on all my reports. It was just something that a little kid grasped on to - so I stuck with it.

  Jeff Dunham

  Book, Kids, Skills

  "Jeff Dunham breathes life into his 'friends' - and a lost art". Interview with Bill DeYoung, savannahnow.com. March 3, 2009.

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• And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!

  Robert Earl Keen

  Grades, Thirds, Havens

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• During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!

  David Letterman

  Class, Noses, Debate

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• I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

  Adam Ross

  Book, Kids, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Wall, Men, Class

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• I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

  Margaret Haddix

  Writing, Trying, Grades

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• I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

  Josh Groban

  Kids, Long, Remember

  Kansas City Star, August 16, 2004.

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• I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career.

  Jared Gilman

  Teacher, Fun, Careers

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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