Grades Quotes - Page 38

• I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Orange, Forgiving, Fifth Grade

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• So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.

  J. K. Rowling

  Expectations, Hermione, Exam

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• My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)

  Jodi Picoult

  Teacher, Believe, Thinking

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• I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.

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  Ram Dass

  School, People, Psychology

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• You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!

  Barack Obama

  Flower, Cutting, Thinking

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• I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Block, Dark

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.99, Macmillan

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• It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Class, Symbolism

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• It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

  George Sand

  Funny, Wisdom, Mistake

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• She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless Beta Male had never seen.

  Christopher Moore

  Baby, Males, Sophie

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Believe, Princess

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• If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

  Dave Eggers

  School, Thinking, Should Have

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• Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.

  Tonya Hurley

  Being In Love, Term Paper, World

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• [My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Thinking, Blue

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• She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Father, Gone, Rooms

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.361, Macmillan

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• Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Practice, Silence, Grace

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• over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

  Margaret Weis

  Mother, Butlers, Protective

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• All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

  Rick Riordan (2013). “Percy Jackson: The Complete Series”, p.19, Penguin UK

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• I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12

  January Jones

  Sports, Teacher, Dad

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• I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

  Nick Offerman

  Growing Up, Fourth Grade, Grows

  Nick Offerman (2013). “Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Fundamentals for Delicious Living”, p.7, Penguin

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• Can I add a class? Do you have a problem with letting me audit 8th grade American Civics? Can you get the AP English reading list for me right now? What is this carton of milk? Will you tell me how many calories are in five and half Gummi Bears? Why are there birds in the air right now? Why is the sky so blue? Can I get the home phone number of the school district supervisor? You know I was in Basic Instinct, right?

  Sharon Stone

  Reading, Home, School

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• I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

  Emma Stone

  Home, School, Might

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• But I stuttered as a kid. I went to classes to help it, and it just went away around fourth grade, when I became more aware of how others spoke, I think. But also, growing up in the South, a mumble is a way of speaking.

  Channing Tatum

  Growing Up, Kids, Thinking

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• I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

  Zac Efron

  Scooters, Sixth Grade, Electric

  "Getting to Know: Zac Efron (interview from December 2005!)". Interview with Audrey Fine, www.seventeen.com. April 14, 2008.

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• I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.

  Lacey Chabert

  Taken, Party, School

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

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• I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

  Aisha Tyler

  Summer, Green, Seventh Grade

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