Grades Quotes - Page 20

• In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

  Grace Jones

  Smart, School, America

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.

  Judy Blume

  Daughter, Bullying, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• "Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

  Judy Blume

  Sixth Grade, Being True, My Truth

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

  Demetri Martin

  Kids, Illustration, Drawing

  "The Art of Being Demetri Martin". Interview with Jacob Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.

  Rachel Nichols

  Book, Night, Thinking

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• When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.

  River Phoenix

  Change, Fun, Kids

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• Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

  Adam Sandler

  Funny, Friendship, Childhood

  Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. June 21, 2010.

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• 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

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• My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!

  Jill Scott

  Records, Firsts, Wiz

  Interview with James Walsh, www.mtv.co.uk. June 27, 2012.

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• This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

  William Shatner

  Valentine, School, Cards

  "William Shatner Bares His Soul". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. October 31, 2011.

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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 I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

  Huston Smith

  Christianity, Made, Found

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November, 1997.

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• 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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• Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

  Ben Stein

  Crush, Children, Parenting

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• I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

  Ben Stein

  Believe, School, Successful

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• I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Country, Jobs, Moving

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. September 5, 2000.

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• 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

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• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  Ice T

  Mother, Father, Aunt

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• My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.

  Clarence Thomas

  Grandmother, People, Grandfather

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• I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

  Lewis Thomas

  School, College, Attention

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

  John Travolta

  Football, Thinking, Looks

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• I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

  J. C. Watts

  Children, School, Thinking

  "J.C. Watts exits political arena". Interview with Paul Begala, www.cnn.com. November 15, 2002.

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• I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

  Rachel Weisz

  Teacher, Thinking, Classroom

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• 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.

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• I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.

  Steven Wright

  Art, Guitar, Drawing

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