Elementary School Quotes

• And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school.

  Dan Rather

  School, News, Remember

  Twitter post from Aug 01, 2014

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• There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

  T. D. Jakes

  Self Esteem, Home, School

  "Mega Church Leader Bishop T.D. Jakes". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. May 2, 2006.

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• In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess.

  Henny Youngman

  Education, Teaching, School

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• Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Girl, Motivation, Inspiration

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• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  Umberto Eco

  Book, Home, School

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• I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

  Steven Wright

  Humorous, School, College

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• Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Country, School, Play

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• Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.

  Elizabeth Warren

  School, Waiting, Tables

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• Elementary school children are very impressionable

  David J. Anderson

  Children, School, Impressionable

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• I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, School, Learning

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.46, Ballantine Books

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• Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

  Stephen King

  School, Fire, People

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• When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

  Kristin Kreuk

  Birthday, Writing, School

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• It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri

  Dan Simmons

  Teaching, School, Years

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• I was an elementary school teacher.

  Luciano Pavarotti

  Teacher, School, School Teachers

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• One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

  Warren Farrell

  Girl, Teacher, Children

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• The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.

  William Bennett

  Children, Teaching, Responsibility

  William J. Bennett (1986). “First Lessons: A Report on Elementary Education in America”, p.21, DIANE Publishing

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• Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.

  Thomas Frank

  School, Government, Democracy

  Thomas Frank (2008). “The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule”, p.3, Macmillan

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• The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

  William Arthur Ward

  Motivational, Leadership, Basketball

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Girl, Horse, School

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• Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

  Donna Brazile

  School, Responsibility, Taught

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• I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

  Jim Fowler

  Memories, Fall, School

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• The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  School, Taught, Needed

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• Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

  John Doolittle

  Bullying, School, Decision

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• But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

  Sally Ride

  School, Space, Juniors

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• Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.

  Billy Crystal

  Book, School, Play

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