“I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.” KnowsKindSchoolReadingLostSportsInterestGrowing UpGrowingGradesPlaying Sports Author:John Brandon
“I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.” WorldFirstsBookKidsBoysParticularThirdsStartingDrawingObsessionComicGradesFortyClassroomComic BookSuperheroMy BoysDreamyClassmatesThird GradeMarvel Comics Author:Adam Ross
“I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.” SchoolPoliticianJewGradesPalestineWwiiGrades In SchoolMadagascar Author:Jill Soloway
“I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"” HomeSchoolRememberFansJokesChampionGradesBe YouGrades In SchoolAlways Loved You Author:Chris Cuomo
“I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.” StillsKidsSchoolLawNextHavensMedicalGradesGraduatesHeadingsLaw SchoolMedical School Author:Chris Matthews
“I started taking lessons in third grade because I thought it was a fun thing to do. Through my acting teacher, I got my manager. That was about 5th grade. So once that happened it kind of clicked that I probably should pursue acting as a career.” ShouldKindFunActingCareersTeacherHappenedLessonsThirdsPursueManagersThings To DoGradesFun ThingsThird GradeActing Teachers Author:Jared Gilman
“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.” RealAgeSongNextHouseFiveCrushGradesFifthPondsUnrequitedFifth GradeAlgae Author:Greta Salpeter
“Up until I think eighth grade - when I found out in front of a roomful of people - I believed that England and Great Britain were two entirely different places. Like I didn't know that England was a part of Great Britain. I thought they were completely separate in every way.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTwoDifferentFoundFrontsEnglandBritainGradesDifferent PlaceGreat BritainEighth Grade Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up.” DonePlaySchoolClassRolesTeacherLoudGradesLitEnglish TeacherEighth Grade Author:David Morse
“Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.” WantTryingPlayHelpingKidsSchoolOpportunityFeltCommunityAcceptanceSummerGuitarBeing YourselfGradesCampsNew ThingsSummer Camp Author:Lisa Loeb
“I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.” IfsTryingKindEnoughRunningGamesTeamFansHavensBasketballSmartPicksGradesClueBasketball TeamNinth Grade Author:Steve Ballmer
“I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.” I CanBookRememberGirlTerribleHorribleGradesThrowingBulliedBeing BulliedNinth Grade Author:Temple Grandin
“In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.” NeedsShouldBelieveWellsTodayEconomyCollegeUniversityEducatedGradesWorkforcePublic EducationTuitionWell EducatedColleges And UniversitiesEconomy Today Author:Bernie Sanders
“I mean, growing up in New Orleans when you're in seventh and eighth grade and you're into music and you're a dorky dude, you know, you listen to the entire Rush catalog and the entire Zeppelin catalog and you go through these, like, phases of classic rock. It definitely speaks to our dorkiness and the similar hometown that we grew up in, the similar sort of schooling we went through and friends we had.” KnowsMeanSpeakGrowing UpGrowingRocksGrewGrew UpClassicGradesPhasesNew OrleansSchoolingHometownZeppelinsEighth GradeClassic RockDorky Author:Steve Zissis
“Every time you recall a memory, you're basically making another copy of it and at that same point it is susceptible to new changes and adaptations. So, you know, if you remember from when you were, you know, in second grade and there was Christmas and you got a present from your grandfather and your mom was wearing a red dress, that may or may not all have happened.” IfsKnowsMayRememberMemoriesHappenedMomRedDressesGradesCopiesGrandfatherRecallsAdaptationYour MomSusceptible Author:Pete Docter
“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.” WayIdeasMovingMovedFolksGradesFifthGood WayDenmarkFifth Grade Author:Pete Docter
“Every year my mom takes her 5th grade class on an outdoor education trip, and ever since I was born, I came with her. One thing I remember the most was this long, old rickety bridge held by two redwood trees. In order to get to the camp fire, you had to cross it. Each time I went across I made my brother carry me on his shoulders. It freaked me out sooooo much, even a little now when I think about it.” ThinkingYearsLittlesLongMadeTwoRememberOrderBornClassFireOne ThingTreeBrotherMomCrossesMy MomShouldersBridgesMy BrotherGradesCampsRedwoods Author:Zendaya
“I've known Woody Weatherman since fifth grade and I'm 46 so that's a long time man.” MenLongKnownLong TimeGradesFifthWoodyFifth GradeWeathermen Author:Reed Mullin
“I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.” BigsLyingMy FriendsThirdsIndianGradesPrincessFourthPhasesFourth GradeLes Mis Author:Laura Benanti
“All of my close friends have been in my life for years. My best friends are all people I met in grade school, going back as far as 3rd grade.” PeopleYearsHas BeensSchoolMetsGradesMy Best FriendClose FriendsGrades In School Author:Aeriel Miranda
“Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.” PeopleTryingSongReadingChurchLevelsWorshipCorporateBoredGradesFourthFourth GradeCorporate Worship Author:Reese Roper
“As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.” ChildrenPlaySchoolVery GoodGradesEaglesGrades In SchoolGood GradesEagle Scout Author:George Meyer
“These are for people above my pay grade to answer, but if it's popular - and I think it's going to be - then sure, you'll see a lot. There is an unending number of battles we could cover and send up in ways that the fans and we would love them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayAnswersNumbersPayFansBattleGradesUnending Author:Phil Morris
“I have a few different managers, and one of them hit me up today and was like 'I'm going to set you up with these guys doing beats and such...' I was like cool, as long as I can do what I do. Just because kids are going like this now, I'm not going to do that because I am not 18 years old. I'm not going to rap like I'm in grade three because it's popular. I'm just not going to do that. It's not because I'm being stubborn, and I definitely not that guy that is getting older and does not understand the younger generation.” YearsLongDoeI CanDifferentKidsTodayGuyThreeCan DoGenerationsBeatsRapManagersGradesStubbornGetting OldGetting OlderThat GuyYounger GenerationBeing Stubborn Author:Shane Bunting
“I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.” KnowsMindAbleFormCausesTeacherWrittenPaperSummerGradesEnglish TeacherGood Grades Author:Ice Cube
“You know, students who major in elementary education - they're going to be grade school teachers - they have the highest rates of math anxiety of any college major. And they bring that into the classroom. So you find students being introduced to math concepts by teachers who may have not only a lack of training but also a lack of enthusiasm about math.” KnowsMaySchoolTeacherStudentsCollegeAnxietyMajorsHighestTrainingConceptsRateMathEnthusiasmGradesClassroomSchool TeachersGrades In School Author:Anya Kamenetz
“I've been recording myself since grade 10. Back then, it was just really crappy rock stuff.” StuffRocksGrades Author:Ryan Hemsworth
“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.” YearsFirstsSongLessonsGuitarGradesFifthAuntBassRippedSixth GradeSeventh GradeFifth 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."” PeopleKnowsSaidI CanEndsCan DoLeavingGradesFifthFifth Grade Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."” ThinkingI CanHelpingArtistThirdsGradesThird Grade Author:Mark Kozelek
“I was a very good student until about sophomore year, and that's when I just became so disillusioned with the whole thing that I just became an awful student. I was still making good grades. But I was cutting class three days a week and faking papers that I got off the internet.” YearsStillsWholeThreeClassCuttingWeekStudentsInternetPaperVery GoodAwfulGradesPapersDisillusionedSophomoreGood StudentsGood GradesSophomore Year Author:Zach Condon
“Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.” FirstsPersonsIdeasHomeLeftLanguageUniversityGrades Author:Richard Rodriguez
“I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it.” WellsMeanArtSchoolGoneCollegeGradesQualificationsHairdresser Author:Guido Palau
“We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.” ConsciousnessFocusSubjectsConsciousStreamsGradesStream Of Consciousness Author:Antonio Damasio
“My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.” FirstsKidsNamesChangedGrades Author:T. J. Miller
“I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.” CultureGrowsMy OwnGrowing UpDaughterGradesTruckSeventh GradeMackMack Trucks Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.” PeopleFeelsDifferentKidsJesusThirdsBlameKillingGradesThird Grade Author:Sarah Silverman
“I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.” KnowsFirstsWellsPlayBigsSchoolCommunityActingClassStudyMiddleStageSeasonsTheaterFinishedManagersCaliforniaGradesAssistantsSmall PartsMiddle SchoolActing ClassesNinth GradeStage Managers Author:Quentin Tarantino
“My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.” Life IsLeftPerspectiveBarsGradesHelpfulMentorMechanicSixth GradeCompetencies Author:Brendon Burchard
“I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that grounded me in a way that I don't think I would have been grounded otherwise. So I was able to - or forced to - function practically. But I think, by nature, I was someone who lived in my head, in my imagination.” ThinkingWayWellsHas BeensAbleImaginationFunctionNineGradesGroundedMy ImaginationDollsEighth Grade Author:Susan Sarandon
“I was, not an altar boy, but a reader of the Epistle, and I walked in on a nun and a priest furiously French kissing when I was in seventh grade. I walked in, saw it, and went, "No way," backed out, composed myself, and went back in, and it was still going on. And the experience of seeing that was actually very deep.” WayStillsBoysSawsSeeingReaderKissingGradesPriestsAltarsVery DeepNunSeventh GradeFrench Kiss Author:George Saunders
“I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.” LittlesLongSaidSchoolSpeechLong TimeHigh SchoolBallsCrowdsCriticalAdministrationGradesExposedWikipediaContentiousGraduation SpeechValedictorians Author:Nick Kroll
“I still wanted to get into the NBA. I was still on the team, I was a starting point guard and I was on and off the team because of my grades. That was the thing, discipline, discipline, discipline, and then I was going home to a very strict dad. He ran the house like the military.” StillsHomeWantedHouseTeamMilitaryDadDisciplineStartingRanGradesNbaStrictStarting PointAnd OffGoing HomePoint Guard Author:Ryan Montgomery
“I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.” YearsFirstsArtistCareersDecidedPursueGradesServingRhymeJuvenileDetention Author:Yukmouth
“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 of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.” PeopleThinkingSchoolSpeakLanguageTeacherOur LivesGradesPoetry IsScarePassagesEcstaticSchool TeachersGrades In SchoolReciting Author:Erica Jong
“I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.” WritingWellsStoriesWantedSchoolUsedCollegeDecidedStorytellingGradesGrades In SchoolStory Writing Author:Rhea Seehorn
“Tied to consciousness are all positive qualities, so that ocean within is an ocean of unbounded intelligence, unbounded creativity, unbounded happiness, unbounded love, unbounded energy, and unbounded peace. And when students start expanding consciousness in those positive qualities, their relationships improve, their grades go up, their happiness goes up, the fighting and bullying stops, and things get very, very, very good.” FightingEnergyConsciousnessQualityCreativityStudentsOceanVery GoodGradesBullyingTiedExpanding Author:David Lynch
“The side effect of expanding consciousness is that negativity starts to evaporate; it goes away like darkness when you turn on a light. Many students have so much torment, stress, depression, sorrow and hate in them these days, but then they get this technique and the negativity starts to go away. They start to feel good because the torment is leaving. Their health gets better and they get happier, their comprehension and their ability to focus grow, their grades go up and a joy for life grows; all of which comes from within.” FeelsLightJoyHateTurnsGrowsSidesAbilityConsciousnessDarknessFocusEffectsStudentsSorrowStressLeavingTechniqueFeel GoodThese DaysGet BetterGradesGoing AwayNegativityTormentExpandingTurn-onComprehensionSide Effects Author:David Lynch
“I'm pleased to say that it [ a paper on the history of Attica] got much recognition with a 99 grade. It was shown to the Attica Historical Society, who enthusiastically responded to it and read it at one of their annual meetings resulting in an article in the local newspaper about this excellent paper being presented. As I now look back at it, I think of that as being really my first book and did indicate that I did have interest in research.” ThinkingFirstsLooksBookInterestPaperResearchHistoricalMeetingsNewspapersLocalsRecognitionExcellentGradesArticlesBeing RealAnnuals Author:Paul Smith
“I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.” LiteratureTeacherGradesGreat WorkIndebtedEnglish Teacher Author:Samuel Alito