The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap,… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?"… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one.… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“I have a complicated spiritual history. Here's the short version: I was born into a Mass-going Roman Catholic family, but my parents… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school. — Matt Duffer Copy Share Image
I started off making backyard movies. I think it began in fifth grade - I'd get the friends together and we'd make… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Because I grew up around Danny and Phillip, I discovered the truth about the male language very early in life. What I… — Jillian Dodd Copy Share Image
“Kelly and I saw a future (otherwise known as the sixth grade) in which we would remain invisible and unchanged while around… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may… — Alice Kahn Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
There was something about telling the lie-story and seeing your friends' eyes grow wide with wonder. Of course I got in trouble… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
I remember going to the Gap when I was in the fifth grade, and I desperately wanted a pair of blue jeans.… — Paloma Elsesser Copy Share Image
I've had asthma my whole life. My mom used to hook the generator up to the Suburban and roll the extension cord… — Von Miller Copy Share Image
To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be… — Riff Raff Copy Share Image
When I was in fifth grade - so, about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark. And so not only did… — Pete Docter Copy Share Image
I was bullied from fifth grade on. They started making fun of me because my mom was in a wheelchair, then they… — Tess Holliday Copy Share Image
The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“My real friends were books and adults. Books didn’t care that I could hold an interesting conversation with adults. They also didn’t… — Mirna Valerio Copy Share Image
My dad was somewhat of a naturalist and used to teach us about different birds and trees. So did a fifth grade… — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I played youth football through the fifth grade and really enjoyed it, but Tampa Prep doesn't have a football program. Wrestling was… — Big E Copy Share Image
“I've known your real name since we were in fifth grade. I've been holding back the information for a potential blackmail opportunity.” — Liliana Hart Copy Share Image
“My father used to tease me at the table by implying that “cold Claire” had brought in the draft. I had three… — Marina Keegan Copy Share Image
By the time I was in fifth grade, I was dreaming of the Pulitzer Prize. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
