Grades Quotes · Page 4

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

— Judy Blume

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

— Bitsie Tulloch

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

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 dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and…

— Conor Oberst

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the…

— Anonymous

I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third…

— Alan Ritchson

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

— Brittany Snow

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one…

— George Sand

I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with…

— Leo Howard

Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to…

— Ally Carter

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of…

— David Einhorn

I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got…

— Randall Jarrell

Many people keep deploring the low level of formal education in the United states (as defined by, say, math grades). Yet these…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon. Being a Republican, I'm backing…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Most brain scientists have not taught 4th grade, and don't know very much about the classroom, even though they might study learning…

— John Medina

Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to…

— Pete Docter

Remember how pissed you got when we had to do all that reading about the Rising back in sixth grade? I thought…

— Mira Grant

When I was in fourth grade, we were learning vocabulary words, and the word nonconformist came up. The teacher said, "It's somebody…

— Nick Offerman

The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the…

— Jasper Fforde

My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.

— Jane McGonigal

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

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

— Alisa Gattus

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

— David Nicholls

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

— Elizabeth Lesser

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

— Keith Hernandez

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade.

— Dierks Bentley

I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

— Mariah Carey

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

— Kent McCord

It's harder than you think to play varsity sports and maintain your grades.

— Ryan Zimmerman

Age doesn't define maturity - Grades doesn't define knowledge.

— Nishan Panwar

If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.

— Tehyi Hsieh