Best Fifth Grade Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When did you first fall in love?" "I think, I first fell in love when I was in fifth grade with this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on my desk with it.”

Source: Stardust and Sheets

“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”

Years Funny Father Comedy Dad My Dad Finished Jealousy Grades Jealous Graduation Hilarious Fifth Funny Graduation Jealousy Envy Fifth Grade Love Jealousy Love And Jealousy

Author:Jeff Foxworthy

“My dad bought a Beatles tape when I was in fifth grade, and that was the first time I ever really - I mean I was into music, but that was the first time it really blew my mind. When I heard the 'Red Compilation,' which wasn't like a proper album, I thought, 'music was more than I had ever thought it was before.”

Mind Firsts Mean Heard Dad First Time Red My Dad Albums Grades Tape Fifth Fifth Grade Compilation

Author:Andrew Dost

“I do home schooling. I went to regular school until fifth grade, and then I started doing home schooling, which it's completely different. I have a teacher on set with me and I just work with her, one-on-one.”

Different Home School Teacher Grades Fifth Schooling One On One Fifth Grade

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“I remember in the fifth grade my dad would take me to Manhattan to shop for clothes.”

Remember Dad Clothes My Dad Shops Grades Take Me Fifth Manhattan Fifth Grade

Author:Theophilus London

“I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.”

World Giving Important Wanted Teacher This World Grades Take Me Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Steve Wozniak

“I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.”

Book Reader Library Grades Prize Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Vijay Seshadri

“The first book by an African American I read was Carl T. Rowan's memoir, Go South to Sorrow. I found it on the bookshelf at the back of my fifth-grade classroom, an adult book. I can remember the quality of the morning on which I read. It was a sunlit morning in January, a Saturday morning, cold, high, empty. I sat in a rectangle of sunlight, near the grate of the floor heater in the yellow bedroom. And as I read, I became aware of warmth and comfort and optimism. I was made aware of my comfort by the knowledge that others were not, are not, comforted. Carl Rowan at my age was not comforted.”

“Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may pursue any curiosity from the mysteries of the yo-yo to the meaning of infinity. These two particular pursuits were where I left off in the fifth grade when I discovered a hair growing in the wrong place and all hell broke loose.”

May Two Left Hell Growing Mystery Particular Hair Intellectual Expectations Curiosity Rage Pursuit Pursue Broke Grades Infinity Phases Fifth Girlhood Fifth Grade Societal Expectations

Author:Alice Kahn

“The most unsuccessful three years in the education of cost estimators appears to be fifth-grade arithmetic.”

Years Three Cost Grades Three Years Fifth Arithmetic Unsuccessful Fifth Grade

Author:Norman Ralph Augustine

“I never really called people out. It was more along the lines of teasing a person. It started for me in fifth grade on the basketball court.”

People Persons Lines Basketball Court Grades Fifth Tease Fifth Grade Basketball Court

Author:Keyshawn Johnson

“I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.”

Growing Height Grades Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Billy Crystal

“And I wanted to do a movie [Moonrise Kingdom] about a childhood romance - a very powerful experience of childhood romance. About what it's like to just be blindsided, when you're in fifth grade or sixth grade, by these kinds of feelings. Along the way, I sort of mixed in some interest in "young adult fantasy" writing.”

Way Writing Kind Feelings Wanted Romance Young Interest Powerful Fantasy Childhood Adults Young Adult Kingdoms Grades Fifth Very Powerful Sixth Grade Fifth Grade

Author:Wes Anderson

“I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.”

School Stupid Grades Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Schoolboy Q

“I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.”

Men Years Father Born Cities Poverty New York Smart Backgrounds Grades New York City Academic Fifth Plumber Fifth Grade Smart Man

Author:Leonard Susskind

“It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.”

Writing Ideas Teacher Grades Hobbies Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Lauren DeStefano

“The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".”

Science Used Tools Mathematics Method Checks Versions Grades Sophisticated Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Richard A. Falk

“I remember liking to write stories pretty early on. In fourth or fifth grade, they would give us the beginning of a story, and we were supposed to finish it. I remember liking that. But I didn't think about deciding to become a writer until high school at about the age of 16.”

Thinking Giving Writing Stories Age School Remember High School Grades Fourth Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Jeffrey Eugenides

“My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.”

Years Hard Home Parent My Family Moved Israel Eight Grades Splits Fifth Scholarship Single Parent Fifth Grade Parents Home

Author:Natasha Lyonne

“When I first saw Destiny's Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours, it was just so cool to me. So all of these influences and these styles started to blend together. Eventually, that evolved into me finding the indie scene in Houston. When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, "Okay, this is something that I could take seriously."”

Want Firsts Children Made Would Be Together Hours Destiny Saws Influence Rocks Style Scene Band Findings Okay Radio Grades Fifth Houston Rock Bands Freestyle Fifth Grade

Author:Lizzo

“I've always had different diet kicks. I grew up in a big Italian family, kind of grew up a chubby kid, then went vegan in fifth grade. I did that for three years, then I went raw in high school. It's always been extreme, but in the last few years I've gotten into balance. I don't restrict myself like I used to.”

Years Kind Different Bigs Kids School Lasts Used Three Grew Balance Grew Up High School Extremes Diets Kicks Grades Italian Vegan Three Years Fifth Fifth Grade Italian Family

Author:Nico Tortorella

“I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.”

Real Age Song Next House Five Crush Grades Fifth Ponds Unrequited Fifth Grade Algae

Author:Greta Salpeter

“So this idea of moving seemed like a good way to sort of represent that metaphorically. It also is something for me personally. When I was in fifth grade - so about 11 - my folks moved us to Denmark.”

Way Ideas Moving Moved Folks Grades Fifth Good Way Denmark Fifth Grade

Author:Pete Docter

“I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.”

Men Long Known Long Time Grades Fifth Woody Fifth Grade Weathermen

Author:Reed Mullin

“The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.”

Years Firsts Song Lessons Guitar Grades Fifth Aunt Bass Ripped Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Fifth Grade

Author:Frankie Cosmos

“There was something in me, even leaving fifth grade, that hit me and said, "I have to get out of here. I don't know where, and I don't know what else I can do but I'm really not going to end up like any of these people."”

People Knows Said I Can Ends Can Do Leaving Grades Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Babatunde Adebimpe

“The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.”

Ifs Real Levels Crisis Prison Conviction Rap Grades Literacy Fifth Mississippi Fifth Grade

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.”

Ifs Knows Differences Class Grades Dictatorship Fifth Civics Fifth Grade

Author:Tim Kaine

“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."”

“[ Mrs. James, my fifth-grade teacher] introduced us to these authors early on and taught us that their literature is important. Langston Hughes - we read his poetry. We studied who W.E.B DuBois was. And so she whetted our appetites.”

Important Literature Teacher Taught Grades Appetite Fifth Taught Us Fifth Grade Dubois

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, "What about your future?" and under my name, it says, "When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian."”

Lasts Actors Names Grows Growing Up Pages Radio Comedian Grades Our Future Shells Fifth Your Future Fifth Grade Announcers Yearbook Impersonators

Author:George Carlin

“I know where "Blubber" came from. It came from stories that my daughter told me when she came home from fifth grade. There was a kid in the class who was being bullied. We didn't even call it bullying then, that's what's so weird. Victimization in the classroom. The word bully was so out, was so not in use for all those years and now it's back big time.”

Knows Years Stories Use Home Bigs Kids Class Daughter Grades My Daughter Bullying Classroom Bully Fifth Bullied Victimization Being Bullied Fifth Grade

Author:Judy Blume

“I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.”

Kids School Band Thirds Let Me Asking Grades Fourth Fifth Fifth Grade School Band

Author:Jon Gordon

“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 kindergarten or maybe third grade.”

Years School Used Teach Teaching Thirds Primaries Grades Fourth Fifth Kindergarten Third Grade Fourth Grade Fifth Grade Primary School

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.”

Ifs Made Can Do Math Made It Grades You Can Do It Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Peter Lynch

“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 on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.”

Character Kids Remember Fall Bits Laughing My Friends Grades Fourth Fifth Quirky Playgrounds Fifth Grade

Author:Busy Philipps

“I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.”

School High School Chess Grades Fifth Tournaments Fifth Grade

Author:Chris Hardwick

“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”

Ifs Stills Forgiving Lists Grades Orange Fifth Buddy Crayon Fifth Grade

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy -- old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.”

Want Enough Play Bigs Young Easy Dark Perfect Secret Mom Block Grades Length Fifth Leashes Fifth Grade Deep Dark Dark Secrets

Book:Speak

Source: Speak

“I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She’s never been right since. (Tory)”

Cold Baseball Grades Apologizing Fifth I Apologize Fifth Grade

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.”

Ifs Men Looks Love You Grades Fifth Been In Love Fifth Grade

Book:Teen Idol

Source: Teen Idol

“See, bad things happen to me on field trips. Like at my fifth-grade school, when we went to the Saratoga battlefield, I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson”

Source: The lightning thief

“A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we both finally owned up to the fact that neither of us was likely to attract anyone else as a best friend.”

Hard Facts Creatures Grades My Best Friend Fifth Puberty Olives Fifth Grade

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.”

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.”

People Knows Wells Hard Able School Grades Brown Fifth Entertainers Fifth Grade

Author:Ned Vizzini

“I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.”

People Has Beens Heard Grew Calling Gay Grew Up Singing Angry Dancing Grades Fifth Gay People Insulted Singing And Dancing Fifth Grade

Author:Matthew Morrison

“I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.”

School Party Taken Five Grades Fifth Fifth Grade

Author:Lacey Chabert

“I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.”

Knows Able Sound Watches Fans Tvs Kitchen Grades Documentaries Fifth Beyonce Fifth Grade

Author:Wendy Williams

“My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teacher saw an ad in the paper and took me to the audition after school and I got the part.”

Firsts School Jobs Young Acting Saws Teacher Happened Paper Accidents Grades Ads Auditions Fifth Hairstyles After School Fifth Grade

Author:Ajay Naidu

“Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.”

Ifs Children Ends Self Loses Justice Self Esteem Self Confidence Esteem Experts Grades Fifth Justice System Juvenile Fifth Grade Juvenile Justice

Author:Dirk Kempthorne

Fifth Grade Quotes

Related topics

Fifth Grade Quotes