Grade Quotes
717 quotes by 596 authors
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
— Bobby Knight
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I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been…
— Jonathan Kozol
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I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching…
— Jonathan Kozol
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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.
— Mike Krzyzewski
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I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you…
— Anne Lamott
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I can't tell you the number of times in high school I was allowed to be disappointed for not making the grade; it's a part…
— Rush Limbaugh
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To change the media, you're gonna have to totally throw out every journalism school and get rid of everybody in every newsroom, and then you're…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
— Peter Lynch
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I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother…
— Seth MacFarlane
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Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or…
— Harvey Mackay
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Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started…
— Demetri Martin
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I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew' books all by…
— Rachel Nichols
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The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M.…
— Conor Oberst
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Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.
— Susan Orlean
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When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I…
— Trey Parker
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According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with…
— Rick Perry
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Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
— Laurence J. Peter
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I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling…
— Busy Philipps
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