I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I… — Felipe Esparza Copy Share Image
The most remarkable feature about the magnitude scale was that it worked at all and that it could be extended on a… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the… — J. C. Watts Copy Share Image
When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one,… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd be exaggerating to say that the essence of who I am today is a result of the weight… — Jake Steinfeld Copy Share Image
I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
I've realized there are far more efficient and devastating methods of disturbing people than merely sloshing around in the pigpen with obvious,… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
I was sort of always the class clown, but I think that was confusing for my teachers because I had the grades… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the battalion commander… — Hal Moore Copy Share Image
I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that… — Patrick Warburton Copy Share Image
My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I remember I was always enamored by and loved motorcycles as a kid. My grandfather had motorcycles and I remember going for… — Taylor Kinney Copy Share Image
The last time someone dried my hair for me was in sixth grade, when i broke my arm." "How did you break… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm,… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums,… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
My grades were horrible. My ambitions were big and my GPA was low. The New School admitted me, but they didn't give… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
You know how sometimes you just have a memory of looking up and seeing a face looking over your crib and then… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the… — Rebecca Lobo Copy Share Image
When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
That's kind of a nostalgia thing. Nirvana was my first favorite band, in third or fourth grade. Then I got out of… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
So after E, it’s A for ‘Acceptable,’ and that’s the last pass grade, isn’t it?” “Yep,” said Fred, dunking an entire roll… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the time you are growing up, people tell you what's wrong with you. Your coach tells you, your parents tell… — Robert Ballard Copy Share Image
Some directors hand over portions of their movie to their head of department to the point where it's like, "I'm not going… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV.… — Kyla Pratt Copy Share Image
Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this… — Lindsey Shaw Copy Share Image
Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
You know, I went to Oberlin. At that time, grades were - you elected to have them or not. It was all… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
Siphonophores do not convey the message a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
