Grades Quotes - Page 4

• Life is an error-making and an error-correctin g process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive.

  Jonas Salk

  Men, Errors, Survival

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• I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

  Margaret Haddix

  Writing, Trying, Third Grade

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• I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.

  Michelle Obama

  Should Have, Worried, Has Beens

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• I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Graduation, Jealousy

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• What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

  Chuck Grassley

  Children, Learning, School

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• All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Education, Sports

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• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Educational, Responsibility

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• In one universe, they are gorgeous, straight-teethed, long-legged, wrapped in designer fashions, and given sports cars on their sixteenth birthdays. Teacher smile at them and grade them on the curve. They know the first names of the staff. They are the Pride of the Trojans. Oops – I mean Pride of the Blue Devils. In Universe #2, they throw parties wild enough to attract college students. They worship the stink of Eau de Jocque. They rent beach houses in Cancún during Spring Break and get group-rate abortions before prom.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Sports, Fashion, Beach

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.30, Macmillan

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• If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

  Stockwell Day

  Sex, School, Law

  House of Commons Debates, www.ourcommons.ca. March 24, 2005.

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• I got into therapy in the fifth grade because I said in a sarcastic way that I was going to kill myself, and they didn't get it then. Nothing's changed.

  Fiona Apple

  Sarcastic, Way, Fifth Grade

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• I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

  Steve Case

  Passionate, Students, Economy

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• I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

  Beverly Cleary

  Wise, Mother, Book

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• Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.

  James S. Coleman

  Class, Achievement, Ranking

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• Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

  Havelock Ellis

  Money, Thinking, Poetry

  havelock ellis (1923). “the dance of life”

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• I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

  Jim Fowler

  Memories, Fall, School

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• I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

  Thomas Friedman

  Daughter, Mother, School

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• Running a school where the students all succeed, even if some students have to help others to make the grade, is good preparation for democracy.

  William Glasser

  Running, School, Helping Others

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• Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.

  Peter Gallagher

  Guy, Style, Television

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• You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

  Gregory Corso

  Sixth Grade, Highest

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• I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

  Adam Baldwin

  Drama, Department, Involved

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• I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

  Richard Dawson

  Children, Doe, Should

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• I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

  Thomas Perry

  Writing, Fiction, Eighth Grade

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• At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Television Commercials, Firsts, Ninth Grade

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• I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Doors, House, Seventh Grade

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

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• It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Reading, Writing, Order

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