“The truth was that I'd been spending years running away from myself. I hid myself in drama, silliness, stupidity, banality. So afraid… — Megan Crane Copy Share Image
I would certainly make the attendance in college paid for, at least at a community college level or a state - you… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My grandmother taught me two very important lessons before she passed: hold the door for everyone and always say "thank you." That… — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
How would you like your child in kindergarten through 12th grade attending classes with kids who can't read, write, speak or understand… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty… — Terry Bozzio Copy Share Image
You know in sixth grade, when they made all of us girls go into this other room and watch a video about… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I had a teacher once, grade school somewhere. Philippines, I think, because she always wore a big white hat. So it was… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe… — Christie Laing Copy Share Image
. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man may see straight and clearly and yet become impatient or doubtful when the market takes its time about doing as… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up,… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
In the seventh grade, I was about to leave wearing a jumper, when my mom said she could see my panty line.… — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades.… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White.… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about… — Peter Croft Copy Share Image
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not… — James S. Coleman Copy Share Image
I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade.… — Shiv Khera Copy Share Image
By the 6th grade I stopped doing ordinary things in front of people. It had been ordinary to sing, kids are singing… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Whatever pressure I feel all comes from me, from within. I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
“To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same… — Jason Dolley Copy Share Image
I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college,… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I've never understood cheating, probably because I never cared much about my grades. I instinctively knew that the grades didn't measure anything… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
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.… — Steve Ballmer Copy Share Image
