Grades Quotes - Page 9

• In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!

  Luke Benward

  Girl, Real, Valentine

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• I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.

  Lizzy Caplan

  School, Kids, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Writing, Equal Pay, Class

  "'Community’s' Gillian Jacobs: TV’s Coolest Feminist?". Interview with Asawin Suebsaeng, www.motherjones.com. December 31, 2013.

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• And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.

  Wes Anderson

  Powerful, Writing, Childhood

  "Book Excerpt: Deconstructing Filmmaker Wes Anderson". Interview with Steve Chagollan, variety.com. October 30, 2013.

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• I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.

  Chris McCaughan

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  School, Getting High, Way

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said "watch this."

  George Carlin

  Art, Believe, Kids

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Photography, Running, Art

  Interview with Nina Corcoran, allstonpudding.com.

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• I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

  Domo Genesis

  Book, Way, Holes

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• I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

  Schoolboy Q

  Stupid, School, Fifth Grade

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• I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.

  Leonard Susskind

  New York, Father, Smart

  "Can Physics Experiments Catch Up?". Interview with Anil Ananthaswamy, www.slate.com. March 2, 2013.

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• It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Teacher, Writing, Ideas

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• When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Summer, Mother, Book

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• I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

  Shiv Khera

  Art, School, Kids

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• My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

  Mike Rowe

  Mother, Dad, Broken

  "Cleaning up 'Dirty Jobs'". Interview with Stephen Samaniego, money.cnn.com. May 18, 2011.

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• With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyos! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

  Jason Dolley

  Kids, People, One Day

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• I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.

  Cynthia Voigt

  Book, Writing, Seventh Grade

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• I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Teacher, Jesus, Tests

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• My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

  Jane McGonigal

  Mom, Teacher, School

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• I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

  G-Eazy

  Hair, Back When, Sixth Grade

  "G-Eazy: 'I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop'". Interview with Paul MacInnes, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2014.

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• My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.

  Bill Gates

  Summer, Thinking, Average

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• I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.

  Chris Bosh

  Hate, Kids, Games

  "Not a Third Wheel: A GQ&A with Chris Bosh". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. January 12, 2012.

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• ...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.

  Fran Lebowitz

  War, Book, School

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.43, Vintage

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• Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.

  Rebecca Harding Davis

  Country, Teacher, Money

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• Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Kindness, Animal, Top Down

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.158, Transaction Publishers

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