Fourth Grade Quotes

• It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

  James Marsters

  Art, House, Myopic

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• In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

  LeBron James

  School, Grades, Fourth

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• When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Keys, Geography, Grades

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• I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Teaching, School, Years

  The Education World Interview, www.educationworld.com.

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• I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill.

  Stone Gossard

  School, Firsts, Hills

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• By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

  Steven Chu

  Moving, Numbers, Design

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• I stopped going to school in the middle of fourth grade. Everyone grows up with the peer pressure, and kids being mean to each other in school. I think that's such a horrible thing, but I never really dealt with it in a high school way.

  Hilary Duff

  Growing Up, School, Mean

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• All the math you need in the stock market you get in the fourth grade.

  Peter Lynch

  Math, Needs, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't have an honest fourth grade school teacher. Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Johnny, your son, your only child, the fruit of your loin, is a moron. I have no idea how this kid finds a door to get out of the house in the morning. If I were you, I would waste him and start over. Now, I say that with all due respect.

  Dom Irrera

  Teacher, Morning, Children

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• After my parents got divorced, I had to go right into public school in the fourth grade. The Steiner school had never really taught me how to read, so it was a rude awakening. I was playing catch-up the whole time.

  Justin Theroux

  School, Rude, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

  Nick Offerman

  Growing Up, Grades, Grows

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin

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• I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

  Glenn Kotche

  Rocks, Sides, Academic

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Running, Talking, Weather

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

  Kevin Systrom

  Government, Law, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

  Michael Steger

  School, Kids, Years

  "‘90210’ Star Michael Steger Opens Up About Childhood Bullying: ‘You Feel Like You’re Going To Die’" by Lee Hernandez, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of them. But one day in college a few buddies and myself all started listening to them again and it blew me away. They still stand out as my favorite band ever.

  Girl Talk

  College, Listening, One Day

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else. If you are in the eighth grade you're not better than someone who is in the fourth grade.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Light

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• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dog, Drinking, Feet

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• When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

  Didi Conn

  Teacher, Fun, Book

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• I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mother, Dad, Believe

  "One-on-One with Evander Holyfield Part I: Evander Holyfield and Bruce Lee". Interview with Zhenyu Li, bleacherreport.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Book, Years, Six

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• I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.

  Steve Sabol

  Football, Team, Struggle

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

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• I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.

  Grace Slick

  Missing, Asking, Want

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

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• When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.

  Jodi Picoult

  Kids, Thinking, Brain

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