Grades Quotes - Page 37

In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.

Will Ferrell

Girl, Doors, Hands

"Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview by Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

Will Ferrell

Teacher, Math, Exercise

"Will Ferrell says growing up in Irvine made him funny". Interview with Barry Koltnow, www.ocregister.com. July 23, 2008.

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Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity.

Tina Fey

Laughing, People, Trying

The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. November 2003.

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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'

Nathan Fillion

School, Class, Sick

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Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

William Glasser

Real, School, World

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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade, I asked my parents for a mobile recording system for Christmas, and I got it. I didn't come out of my room for years after that. I'd get invited to the movies and I'd say, 'I'm gonna finish a couple of demos.'

Hunter Hayes

Couple, Years, Parent

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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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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

Erica Jong

Teacher, School, Thinking

"Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

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In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Michio Kaku

Scare, Popcorn, Fiction

Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 9, 2009.

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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.

Karlie Kloss

School, Careers, Feet

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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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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.

Jonathan Kozol

Jobs, Children, Book

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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame.

Anne Lamott

Anxiety, Culture, Quiet

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I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part of life. So the young students who are being taught by radical leftists in this country today are going to end up growing up in a world for which they are totally unprepared and unequipped.

Rush Limbaugh

Country, Growing Up, School

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To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're gonna have to change the grade school and middle school and high school curriculum.

Rush Limbaugh

School, Media, Curriculum

"Are Conservatives Hopelessly Outnumbered?". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. November 19, 2013.

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I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.

Seth MacFarlane

Mother, School, Childhood

Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. July 21, 2003.

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Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

Harvey Mackay

Jobs, Self Esteem, Team

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On Facebook, your past comes into your present when someone from your second grade class suddenly pops up to send you a message, and your future is being manipulated by what Facebook knows to put in front of you next.

Douglas Rushkoff

Past, Class, Next

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She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.

Jerry Spinelli

Stargirl, Said

Jerry Spinelli (2012). “The Stargirl Collection”, p.12, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

Rob Sheffield

Girl, Strong, Boys

Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Teacher, Book, Taken

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There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

Thomas Aquinas

Perfect, All Things, Ifs

Thomas Aquinas (1976). “Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation”, University of Notre Dame Pess

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But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.

Sarah Vowell

Mother, Heart, Home

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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Bill Watterson

Funny, Moving, School

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My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.

Anne Fadiman

Daughter, Children, Book

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