Grades Quotes - Page 3

• I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

  Merce Cunningham

  Giving, Students

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• When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sixth Grade, Priests, Wanted

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.

  James Worthy

  Basketball, College, Letters

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• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  Danica McKellar

  Believe, School, Self

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• Nowadays people seem to switch schools, either because they have to, and certain schools only serve certain grades, or because they move to a different place or have some particular interest, but I was in the same school for 13 years

  Steve Case

  Moving, School, Years

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• OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

  Maya Lin

  Hurt, Artist, Thinking

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• I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

  Kent McCord

  Needs, Way, Obsolete

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• By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Country, Memories, World

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• I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

  Cathy Freeman

  Running, School, People

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

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• I'm getting paid to do what I got in trouble for in the 7th grade. I absolutely love what I do and thank my lucky stars for twenty-five years of full-time employment in this business.

  Rob Paulsen

  Stars, Years, Twenties

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

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• Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

  Anna Chlumsky

  Growing Up, Fall, School

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• I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refinement and is probably a liability.

  H. L. Hunt

  School, Thinking, Hunting

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• Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros

  Rebecca Lobo

  Believe, Athlete, College

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• I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.

  Sarah Vowell

  Crazy, Nuts, Madness

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• 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

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• I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.

  Stacie Orrico

  School, Kindergarten, Seventh Grade

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• I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Students, Diligent

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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, Wells

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• I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

  Dorothy Malone

  School, Born, Seattle

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

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• My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Florida, Parent

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• Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

  Alan Shepard

  Sports, School, Yards

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• Old teachers never die, they just grade away.

  Henny Youngman

  Teacher, Teaching, Assessment

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• To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, School, Pay The Price

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.24, Mango Media Inc.

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• Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Education, Real

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• The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students.

  Carl David Anderson

  Trying, Would Be, Students

  "Interviewed By Harriett Lyle". Oral History Project, California Institute of Technology Archives, Pasadena, California, 1979.

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