Grades Quotes - Page 32

• I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.

  Kandyse McClure

  Summer, Mom, School

  "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

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• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Book

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Schooling after the second grade plays only a minor role in creating or reducing gaps.

  James Heckman

  Creating, Play, Gaps

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• Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

  Ann Landers

  Teacher, Experience, Lessons

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year.

  Bill Vaughan

  Book, School, Years

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• My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.

  George Pataki

  Summer, Father, Thinking

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• Im always trying to push the envelope and go with a different hairstyle that youre not going to see on anybody else. I have a really good grade of hair, and I can do a lot of different things with it.

  David Otunga

  Hair, Always Trying, Different

  "The NXT Interview: David Otunga". Interview with Aubrey Sitterson, www.wwe.com.

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• I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

  Vijay Seshadri

  Book, Library, Fifth Grade

  "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

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• I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means you have to try a little bit of everything in hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note, expression in the process. I'm not going for grades; I'm going for an education. I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.

  Nicolas Cage

  Mean, Expression, Trying

  "Nicolas Cage is No Ordinary ‘Joe’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com.

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• It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.

  Big Sean

  Mom, Fake, Gold

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear.

  Michael Pollan

  Teacher, Writing, Class

  Source: indianapublicmedia.org

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• When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.

  Khaled Hosseini

  War, Kids, Math

  "Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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• I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.

  Sophia Bush

  Girl, School, Opportunity

  Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 26, 2006.

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• The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Morning, Book, Yellow

  "Brown : The Last Discovery of America". Book by Richard Rodriguez, 2003.

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• If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

  Tehyi Hsieh

  Ignorance, Bliss, Lows

  Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

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• Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.

  Alice Kahn

  Hair, Two, Expectations

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• Toddlers ask many questions, and so do school children - until about grade three. By that time, many of them have learned an unfortunate fact, that in school, it can be more important for self-protection to hide one's ignorance about a subject than to learn more about it, regardless of one's curiosity.

  Jan Hunt

  Children, School, Ignorance

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.115, New Society Publishers

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• When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

  Albert Brooks

  School, Kids, Careers

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• When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them.

  Shantel VanSanten

  Differences, Ideas, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

  Austin Butler

  Home, Starting, Schooled

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• I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.

  Keyshawn Johnson

  Basketball, People, Lines

  "The art of smack: Some of the best ever trash talkers share their tricks". Interview with Jim Corbett, www.usatoday.com. January 27, 2014.

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• I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.

  Billy Crystal

  Growing, Height, Fifth Grade

  "Fictional character: Sam Kamin". "My Giant", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

  Jessica Stroup

  School, Nine, Ninth Grade

  "EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Stroup Dishes on 90210". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2009.

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• I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.

  Dakota Fanning

  Thinking, College, Parent

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• Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Teacher, School, Self

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