Grades Quotes
696 quotes by 592 authors
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
— Havelock Ellis
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I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very…
— Jessica Ennis
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In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head…
— Will Ferrell
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I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told…
— Will Ferrell
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Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just…
— Tina Fey
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he…
— Nathan Fillion
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I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
— Scott Hamilton
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When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only…
— Woody Harrelson
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I've always been shy, but I see that as a good thing because it kept me focused on music. When I was in seventh grade,…
— Hunter Hayes
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I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
— Levon Helm
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I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They…
— Evander Holyfield
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In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.
— LeBron James
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Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think…
— Erica Jong
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In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt…
— Michio Kaku
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My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade.
— Karlie Kloss
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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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