Eighth Grade Quotes - Page 2

• My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.

  Mitch Pileggi

  Dad, Successful, Unions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up.

  Lindsey Shaw

  School, Soup Kitchens, California

  7 Copy quote

• There are too many false things in the world, and I don't want to be a part of them. If you say what you think, you're called cocky or conceited. But if you have an objective in life, you shouldn't be afraid to stand up and say it. In the second grade, they asked us what we wanted to be. I said I wanted to be a ball player and they laughed. In the eighth grade, they asked the same question, and I said a ball player and they laughed a little more. By the eleventh grade, no one was laughing.

  Johnny Bench

  Inspirational, Baseball, Honesty

  51 Copy quote

• If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

  Heather Brewer

  Trying, Garlic, Tough

  35 Copy quote

• I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Shy, Want, Limits

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.149, Scholastic UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Father, Gone, Rooms

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.361, Macmillan

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.

  Kristen Wiig

  New York, School, Years

  Interview with Dave Grohl, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Different, Pages

  5 Copy quote

• I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Hip Hop, Musical

  4 Copy quote

• My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Writing, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

  Tia Carrere

  Acting, Kind, Grades

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

  Aaron Paul

  Thinking, Class, Play

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, Fiction, Grades

  7 Copy quote

• I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.

  Channing Tatum

  School, Focus, Drug

  53 Copy quote

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

  Christine Lavin

  Children, Class, Abuse

  7 Copy quote

• I almost flunked first grade and also the second, third, forth, and fifth; but my younger brother was in the grade behind me and he was a brain and nobody wanted to have me be in the same grade as him, so they kept passing me. I never learned how to spell, graduated from eighth grade counting on my fingers to do simple addition, and in general was not a resounding academic success.

  Robert Munsch

  Brother, Simple, Brain

  23 Copy quote

• I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

  Jason Wiles

  Book, Character, Cities

  10 Copy quote

• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age seven, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. And I was hooked. When my eighth grade art teacher, Mr. Smedley, told me he thought I had actual art talent, I decided to devote all my efforts in that direction in the hope that I might someday get into the comics biz. I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Teacher, Art, Dad

  Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach - some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah - they’re all the same as that coach.

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Team, Juniors

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY.

  Brad Meltzer

  Memories, Who We Are, Matter

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.248, Hachette UK

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.

  Jeremy London

  School, Eight, Different

  7 Copy quote

• My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.

  Dave Brubeck

  Dad, School, Years

  4 Copy quote