Third Grade Quotes - Page 3

When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.

Khaled Hosseini

War, Kids, Math

"Khaled Hosseini, Kabul’s Splendid Son". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2009.

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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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During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

Naomi Shihab Nye

Girl, Jobs, Children

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I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.

Jon Scieszka

Girl, Reading, School

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I have been playing since the third grade. It just makes me happy.

David Wilkerson

Grades, Make Me Happy, Thirds

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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 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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Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

Anna Quindlen

Teacher, Book, Son

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I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

Adam Ross

Book, Kids, Boys

Source: therumpus.net

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I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career.

Jared Gilman

Teacher, Fun, Careers

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

Margaret Haddix

Writing, Trying, Grades

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The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.

Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!

I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

Mike Huckabee

Soccer, Country, Real

Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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Children, of course, don't understand at first that they are being cheated. They come to school with a degree of faith and optimism, and they often seem to thrive during the first few years. It is sometimes not until the third grade that their teachers start to see the warning signs of failure. By the fourth grade many children see it too.

Jonathan Kozol

Teacher, Children, School

Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.70, Broadway Books

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During the debate, Palin winked, wrinkled her nose, and gave a shout-out to a third-grade class. Well, you know, that says commander-in-chief to me right there. You betcha!

David Letterman

Class, Noses, Debate

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A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as he figured it must do. That is why so many men in Wall Street, who are not at all in the sucker class, not even in the third grade, nevertheless lose money. The market does not beat them. They beat themselves, because though they have brains they cannot sit tight.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Wall, Men, Class

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And I thought to myself, 'I haven't had a Schlitz since the third grade!

Robert Earl Keen

Grades, Thirds, Havens

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I just knew what I wanted to be since the third grade. And I always did well in school, I was the type to get good grades, I never really got below Cs or nothing like that. I always kept it A-B. But there's no school for rap.

Big Sean

Rap, School, Type

Source: www.gq.com

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My mother only had a third grade education, was illiterate, worked as a domestic 2 to 3 jobs at a time, because she didn't want to be on welfare, because she never saw people who went on welfare come off of welfare, and she just didn't want to have her life controlled in that fashion.

Benjamin Carson

Mother, Fashion, Jobs

Source: www.pbs.org

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I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

Josh Groban

Kids, Long, Remember

Kansas City Star, August 16, 2004.

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Everyone in my family can sing - my momma can sing, my cousins. I was in the third grade and I was that kid who was so bad in school because I could sing.

Ester Dean

Cousin, School, Kids

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

Sebastian Arcelus

Monkeys, Break, Bigs

"THE LEADING MEN: Arcelus and Morrison". Interview with Tom Nondorf, www.playbill.com. May 01, 2007.

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It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

Brittany Snow

Sound, Lame, May

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When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.

Jeff Dunham

College, Years, People

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

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As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.

Jenna Bush

Teacher, Kids, Differences

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My friend and I were up to all sorts of shenanigans at school. But one time it ended up disrupting the whole class and we got in trouble. His parents told him he wasn't allowed to hang out with me any more. I had a friendship break-up in third grade. It was brutal.

Arj Barker

School, Class, Parent

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