Attention Quote by Gary D. Schmidt

My theory is that how you acted in seventh and eighth grade informs your whole life.

— Alana Haim

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

— Anthony Hopkins

When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous.

— Claire Coffee

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy…

— Mark Waters

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I…

— Beverly Cleary

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might…

— Anonymous

My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.

— Rob Liefeld

I was a real unfocused academic student, always fiddling around in class, or doing something silly and thinking of something else that had nothing…

— Adriano Zumbo

A real enlightened teacher is intense and they could care less what you think about anything at any time since you are lost in…

— Frederick Lenz

I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

— Sarah Silverman

“For three years, all through junior high, my social death was grossly overdetermined. I had a large vocabulary, a giddily squeaking voice, horn-rimmed glasses,…

— Jonathan Franzen

You have to avoid what I call the 'smartest boy in class syndrome,' which is, just because you know it, you don't have to…

— Don Winslow