Grades Quotes

696 Grades quotes by 586 unique authors

Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used… — Danica McKellar
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
We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the… — Barack Obama
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
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it. — Susan Orlean
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
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
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. — Laurence J. Peter
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
When I was in first grade, everyone made fun of my name, of course. I think it's kind of a big name to hold up… — River Phoenix
Too often we act - ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we're giving them children who have,… — Colin Powell
I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened. — Chris Pratt
I dropped out of school in the 11th grade because there was no purpose in it for me. I'm not proud of this, and I'm… — Lisa Marie Presley
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. — Ronald Reagan
My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She… — Rick Riordan
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds:… — Rick Riordan
I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a… — Rick Riordan
I went to a large consolidated school in Appalachia. And I wrote the story when I was in the second grade and I took it… — Tom Robbins
I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn. — Kid Rock
I have loved football as an almost mythic game since I was in the fourth grade. To me, the game wasn't even grounded in reality.… — Steve Sabol
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things. — Adam Sandler
I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice. — Jill Scott
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was… — Jill Scott
My earliest influence was Quincy Jones. I thought 'The Wiz' soundtrack was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. It was my first record and… — Jill Scott
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. — Amy Sedaris

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