Grades Quotes · Page 3

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

— Stephen J. Cannell

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

— Gayle King

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

— Gregory Corso

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

— Kristin Lehman

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

— Karl Kraus

I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.

— Kid Rock

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

— Tamora Pierce

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

— John Taylor Gatto

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH…

— Marva Collins

When I was a kid I was not a good student. I went to the University of Colarado, my grades were poor.…

— Robert Redford

Freemasonry is a Jewish establishment, whose history, grades, official appointments, passwords, and explanations are Jewish from beginning to end

— Isaac Mayer Wise

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more…

— Dirk Kempthorne

So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me…

— Pete Docter

I wanted to get everything right. I was super nerdy and academic. I got so much satisfaction out of getting good grades.

— Tatiana Maslany

When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Gansey had no idea how old Blue was. He knew she'd just finished eleventh grade. Maybe she was sixteen. Maybe she was…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When Paul and I were first friends, starting in the sixth grade and seventh grade, we would sing a little together and…

— Art Garfunkel

When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels…

— Craig Clevenger

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the…

— Anne Lamott

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther…

— Louis Menand

The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are…

— Brian J. White

I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly…

— Matthew Morrison

In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in…

— Chuck Close

Most individuals on earth are not drawn to the higher light at this time. That doesn't make you superior to anyone else.…

— Frederick Lenz

I go to a school where the students are higher than their grades.

— Alisa Gattus

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

— Thomas Aquinas

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

— Judy Blume

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

— Adam Baldwin

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

— Anonymous

I wrote my first story in second grade, and was trying novel-length by sixth.

— Brian Hodge

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

— Bitsie Tulloch

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

— W. Edwards Deming

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

— Alfie Kohn

I knew I needed to find a way to stay out of trouble and to have good grades to be able to…

— Chris Harris, Jr

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

— Sebastian Arcelus

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

— Ann Landers

I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.

— Bob Uecker

By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory.

— Clyde Tombaugh

I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.

— Rudy Ruettiger

Grades don't always measure intelligence and age doesn't always define maturity..

— Anonymous