“I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.” LongDreamGirlClassBoysTeacherBabyBedPagesEarsLaysGradesCountingBoy And GirlEighth Grade Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“Life begins at six--at least in the minds of six-year-olds. . . . In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby. . . . Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life. . . . First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.” KnowsWorldWayYearsMindFirstsRealStepsBabySixReal LifeGradesFirst StepsKindergartenSix Year Olds Author:Stella Chess
“I love my family but my family - they're the type of people that never let you forget anything you ever did... I was in the first grade Christmas play - I'm playing Mary. Now, during the course of the play, I dropped the baby Jesus... They still talk about this. I go to my family reunion, and one of my cousins just had a baby. So I'm like, 'Oh, that's a cute little baby. Let me hold the baby...' And my aunt runs over, 'Don't you give her that baby! You know she dropped the baby Jesus!'” PeopleKnowsGivingFirstsLittlesStillsPlayRunningCoursesJesusForgetBabyTypeMy FamilyLet MeCuteGradesMaryCousinAuntReunionMy CousinFamily ReunionLove My FamilyI Love My FamilyBaby Jesus Author:Wanda Sykes
“Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher, introduced us to some of the great literature of African American culture. I won my first blue ribbon reciting the vernacular poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar, in particular "Little Brown Baby."” FirstsLittlesCultureLiteratureTeacherParticularBabyBlueAfrican AmericanGradesBrownFifthAmerican CultureRibbonsRecitingGreat LiteratureVernacularFifth GradeAfrican American Culture Author:Michael Eric Dyson
“[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.” ThinkingShouldEndsKidsHouseGrowsWhiteGrowing UpBabyHappeningsContactGradesWhite HouseInteractionStaffMaintainingDuplicate Author:Barack Obama
“Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.” KindRunningFightingMiddleBabyBusyGradesToo BusyBrianTroublemakerTrouble MakerRunning Wild Author:Dennis Wilson
“She pulled down the blanket and aimed baby Sophie's bottom at him like she might unleash a fusillade of weapons-grade poopage such as the guileless Beta Male had never seen.” MightBabyWeaponsMalesBottomGradesBlanketSophieBeta Book:A Dirty Job: A Novel Source: A Dirty Job: A Novel