Grades Quotes - Page 18

• My kids have to maintain good grades. They have to be involved in activities. They have to report to me how thing are going. I watch for any activity that would steer them wrong - drinking, drugs, etc. So their skin in the game is knowing the money won't be there if they don't do their part.

  Michelle Singletary

  Drinking, Kids, Games

  "Color of Money Live: 'Can't have a dollar without a penny.'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. September 22, 2016.

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• Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when I got to third or fourth grade - don't associate reading with fun.

  Dav Pilkey

  Fun, Book, Reading

  "Dav Pilkey on 'Dog Man,' Mind-Blowing Graphic Novels, and More". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 20, 2016.

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• I enjoy going to campuses and reading and doing a class or teaching and then running away and not having to grade papers.

  Frederick Busch

  Running, Teaching, Reading

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I often suggest in workshops that if you have 30 students in your American History course in 11th grade, or whatever grade level, that you maybe triple them up. You put, and have them choose, let's say 11 different Native American cultures. Maybe you give them a list of 15 and they choose 11 of those 15 so that they have some choice in the matter.

  James W. Loewen

  Native American, Giving, Choices

  "Oh What a Web Textbooks Weave…". Interview with Daniel Falcone, truthout.org. August 12, 2013.

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• If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

  Tim Kaine

  Class, Differences, Fifth Grade

  Source: www.politico.com

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• 8th grade I started writing my own songs. They weren't good songs or anything, but it was always the song writing aspect of things that was important to me, I always just wanted to create a song it seemed like.

  William Clark Green

  Song, Writing, Important

  Source: maroonweekly.com

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• It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

  Bryan Cranston

  Teacher, Cancer, School

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you know, a sponsored university level so that if you wanted to go to college and if you had the grades - you might not go to Harvard - but you went to college.

  Mitch Albom

  College, Community, Attendance

  "Non-Politicians Talking Politics: Sports Writer Mitch Albom On 2016 Election". Interview with Scott Simon, publicradioeast.org. October 22, 2016.

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• In White Boy Shuffle, I combined my seventh-grade teacher, Mr. Takemoto, who really saved me - I don't think I've ever told anyone this - and my first basketball coach, Mr. Shimizu, into one character. Something about the way they talked about things, and their attitudes, had a huge impact on me. Not that I necessarily agreed with them. It was important to me to just put them there to stay grounded.

  Paul Beatty

  Basketball, Teacher, Attitude

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.

  Terry Bozzio

  Sports, Smart, Party

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Memories, Names

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished that day and didn't get to see it. To this day, I am so mad I never got to see that helicopter land! I took my first ride in a helicopter recently, and that's what I thought, "Yes, finally the circle is complete!"

  Larry Wilmore

  School, Land, Circles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious, profane, scatological, flat-brained, grade-school offensiveness.

  Jim Goad

  School, People, Method

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

  G-Eazy

  Party, Library, Too Much

  Source: bestfan.com

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• Language instruction should start in the first grade. Writing, also.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Writing, Firsts, Language

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Mom, Teacher, Book

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now. You've probably never woken up early on a winter morning to the acid stink of coal smoke in the air, which was everywhere when I was a little kid. My grade school was heated with coal. Not only was coal used to generate electricity, it was without any scrubbers in the stacks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Morning, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I dunno, around 11th grade, 12th grade I was just like "yeah. This is something I want to do". I was always known; I was always the rapper.

  Ab-Soul

  Rapper, Want, Yeah

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I went home every night to New Jersey - or most nights - and to help with the six-grade math homework or to make breakfast in the morning, just to make sure that that was there. When I was single and didn't have children, I used to laugh at this notion of quality time.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Morning, Children, Home

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I have been playing since the third grade. It just makes me happy.

  David Wilkerson

  Third Grade, Make Me Happy, Thirds

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• As I got older, my ambitions changed and I wanted to be a graphic designer. In form five, I did Art for CXC and got a grade 2 at the general proficiency level. I was devastated because I was aspiring for a grade 1. I took a break from art when I went to A level because I could not cope with the disappointment of my Grade 2. But I guess when you love doing something you just can't turn you back on it completely.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Disappointment, Ambition

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• This actress named Lisa Eilbacher. I was up for the part in Shampoo and friends of mine kept telling me she was going around saying all these bad things about me. It's like we're still in the sixth grade sometimes.

  Carrie Fisher

  Actresses, Sometimes, Shampoo

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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'm sure kids had masturbated by sixth grade. I had for sure.

  Jen Kirkman

  Kids, Sixth Grade

  Source: www.avclub.com

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