Third Grade Quotes - Page 2

• In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Boys, Garbage Cans, Desks

  "Bruce Springsteen: 'Talking'". Book edited by John W. Duffy, 2004.

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• [Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

  Marva Collins

  Kids, Rooms, Firsts

  Source: reason.com

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• I didn't think I was good at anything, didn't do well in school. And then in the third grade, I was going to a public school. And the teacher was putting math problems on the board. And I said to myself - it's amazing how you can remember certain incidents at any age that made an impression - I asked myself why is she putting those up when the answers are obvious. And then I saw it wasn't obvious to anybody else in the class. So I said, "Hey, I'm good at something."

  Charles Koch

  Teacher, School, Math

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade.

  Dallas Roberts

  Writing, Ideas, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• My dad also survived five divorces, and the women he married cleaned his ass out every time. I used to think my dad got divorced because he wanted new furniture. At one point in my life, all we had left was a wooden box, a 12 black-and-white TV, and a four-man rubber raft for a couch. And yet, I was the coolest kid in third grade. Mom, can we have a sleepover in Christopher Titus' house? They have a raft in the living room! We can row to breakfast in the morning. I can actually be Captain Crunch!

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Morning, Dad

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

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• My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That means to treat everyone the same, no matter if it is the President or a homeless mother begging for food. And never forget to thank those who have helped you, whether it is the person serving you food at a restaurant or your third-grade teacher who taught you the multiplication tables.

  Michael Skolnik

  Mother, Teacher, Mean

  "Global Grind Editor Michael Skolnik". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.

  Robert Hass

  Country, Teaching, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Book

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful".

  Colette Freedman

  Writing, Play, Differences

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• I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Teacher, Jesus, Tests

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• You don't have to care about children to care about children. One of the things that I talk a lot about is the fact of the importance of third-grade reading level. By the end of third grade, if the child is not at reading level, it'll drop off. They never catch up.

  Kamala Harris

  Children, Reading, Levels

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• 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.

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• Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

  Bob Ainsworth

  Growing Up, Italian, Cooking

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• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  Steve Jobs

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs". Interview With David Sheff, reprints.longform.org. February 1985.

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

  Pat Paulsen

  Children, School, Ends

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• I only went to the third grade because my father only went to the fourth and I didn't want to pass him.

  Dizzy Dean

  Father, Want, Grades

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• Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

  Max De Pree

  Mean, Significant Things, Grades

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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 was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Girl, Church, Irritated

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

  Sarah Silverman

  Jesus, Kids, People

  "Sarah Silverman, Serving Up Sinfully Divine Comedy". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. November 23, 2013.

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• When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

  Mark Kozelek

  Artist, Thinking, Helping

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.

  Big Sean

  Mom, Fake, Gold

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Young kids are always singing and painting. When you get to that second and third grade level, you're supposed to put all that aside.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Kids, Singing, Levels

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

  Emily Giffin

  Integrity, Believe, Guy

  "Emily Giffin Talks Life, Relationships, and Her New Novel, First Comes Love". Interview with Laura Marie Meyers, www.popsugar.com. July 19, 2016.

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• For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person and things happen to them and then something big happens and they realize something new.

  Ira Glass

  Stories, Way, Realizing

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