Ninth Grade Quotes

• I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

  Scott Hamilton

  Teacher, Grades, Smarter

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• The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

  Bubba Smith

  Sports, Grades

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• I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

  Kristin Lehman

  Class, President, Grades

  "Q&A – Kristin Lehman (Gwen Eaton)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

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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, Grades

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• My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

  Sanford I. Weill

  New York, Florida, Parent

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• When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

  Ryan Sypek

  Baseball, Real, Play

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• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  Rick Perry

  School, College, Texas

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• In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

  Bill Gates

  Book, Home, Math

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• If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Eye, Differences

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.189, Penguin

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• I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

  Eminem

  Mother, Growing Up, Stupid

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Latin, Grades, Havens

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• From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.

  Kevin Maney

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Thinking, Years, Careers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.53, Macmillan

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• ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes weren't open you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking' It hadn't meant meant much to me at the time. After all there'd been a guy in the class that i liked so how could i be expected to pay attention to literary analysis? Now three year later i understand the poem perfectly.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Writing, Eye

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.10, Penguin UK

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• My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

  John Barrasso

  Dad, School, Mean

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• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  Sarah Dessen

  Morning, Sorry, Eye

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.87, Penguin

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• I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

  George Carlin

  School, Needs, Study

  Source: mavericksofthemind.com

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• I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.

  Steve Ballmer

  Basketball, Running, Team

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

  Temple Grandin

  Girl, Book, Remember

  "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

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• I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

  Quentin Tarantino

  School, Class, Play

  "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

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• Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

  Dave Barry

  Hands, Years, People

  Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.15, Ballantine Books

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• I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

  Robin Williams

  Fun, Kids, Wrestling

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• Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

  Eminem

  Stupid, Thinking, Three

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

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• Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Volleyball, Children, School

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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, Grades

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

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