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“I spent my entire childhood in the same town, in Kent. I went to grade school there. There was a boarding school that my mother taught at, called - appropriately enough - Kent School, that I went to. Yeah, pretty much my entire childhood was spent in that town.”

Enough School Mother Childhood Taught Towns Yeah Grades Grades In School Kent

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.”

People Made Hard School Opportunity Parent College Hard Work Grades Good Grades

Author:Anthony Mackie

“The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.”

World Wells Art Shows Might Artist Drama Fame Highest Dignity Wide Envy Grades Phases Gifted Monkeys Show Business Exhibitions

Author:P. T. Barnum

“Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.”

Way Kids Progress Draws Okay Twenties Drawing Grades Illustration Sixth Grade

Author:Demetri Martin

“I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!”

People Believe Stills Self Hard Enough School My Friends Admire Self Respect Grades Good People Clique Good Grades

Author:Danica McKellar

“Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.”

Home School Used Teacher Cry College Majors Perseverance Math Block Grades Coming Home Frustrated Juniors Stumbling Good Teacher Junior High Stumbling Blocks Good Grades

Author: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 myself by the time I reached the first grade. I loved stories. I loved the escape. I had a vivid imagination.”

Thinking Firsts Book Reason Stories Night Imagination Reason Why Grades Every Night Volume Vivid Nancy Plowing Vivid Imagination Nancy Drew

Author: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 grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

People Stills School Desire Money Responsibility Youth Students Investing Educational Obligation Grades Best Education

Author: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. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.”

Firsts I Can Remember Brother Band My Favorite Cures Alternatives My Brother Grades 80s Favorite Bands

Author:Conor Oberst

“Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.”

Humans Deals Dog Parks Grades Exception Gathering Seventh Grade

Author: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 had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.”

Firsts Play Shows Remember Blood Talent My Friends Patient Fake Grades Dentist Sixth Grade Talent Show

Author: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 this year's ninth grade class.”

Years Firsts States School Class Study Achieve College Standards High School Starting Grades Texas Curriculum Preps Ninth Grade

Author:Rick Perry

“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”

School Education Higher Prejudice Method Educational Acquire Grades Higher Education Schooled Homeschooling Schools And Education Best Education Education For All

Author: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 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

“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 when you're nine years old. It seemed goofy. I used to tell people I wanted to change the world and they used to think, 'This kid's really weird'.”

People Thinking World Years Firsts Kind Made Bigs Kids Wanted Used Courses Names Fun Change Nine Changing The World Grades Phoenix Nine Years Goofy Really Weird

Author: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, you know, they're not ready to learn. And if they're not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they're behind.”

Ifs Knows Giving Children School Asks Behinds Teacher Ready Thirds Grades Officers Not Ready Third Grade

Author:Colin Powell

“I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened.”

Way Ideas Pay Happened Married No Idea Grades

Author: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 not trying to promote it.”

Trying School Purpose Proud Grades

Author: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.”

School Politics President Secret History High School Advantage Grades Patriotic Top Secret

Book:The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words

Source: The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words

“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 was also the first person to encourage me to submit stories for publication. The idea of writing a fantasy based on myths never left me, and many years later, this would lead me to write Percy Jackson.”

Writing Years Firsts Persons Ideas Done Stories Left Fantasy Teacher Masters Myth Mythology Grades Submit Publication First Person Leading Me Thesis Trilogies Eighth Grade Norse

Author: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: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents.”

Thinking World Way Writing Two Young Parent Numbers Childhood Middle Reader Grades Trapped Adulthood Two Worlds

Author: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 lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!”

Stills Book Sometimes Use Kids Reading Teacher Taught Research Mythology Monsters Greek Grades Something New Site Greek Mythology Sixth Grade

Author: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 up to the third floor to the school newspaper office that was written and edited by juniors and seniors.”

Stories School Written Office Thirds Newspapers Grades Senior Juniors Edited Appalachia

Author:Tom Robbins

“I think generally I'm a pretty good person if I had to grade myself. Or toot my own horn.”

Ifs Thinking Persons My Own Grades Horns Good Person

Author: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. The uniform turned you into a warrior. Being on a team, the mythology of physical combat, the struggle against the elements, the narrative of the game.”

Reality Games Struggle Team Football Elements Mythology Warrior Narrative Grades Combat Fourth Uniforms Grounded Fourth Grade

Author:Steve Sabol

“Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.”

Bigs Funny Friendship Childhood Grades Funny Things Sixth Grade

Author:Adam Sandler

“I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice.”

Has Beens Practice Listening Training Grades

Author: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 in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.”

Writing Certain Energy Jazz Musical Hip Hop Backgrounds Rhythm Hips Grades Hops Pulse Eighth Grade

Author: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 you had Michael Jackson, Ted Ross, Nipsey Russell and Diana Ross on it. I even took it to show and tell in third grade!”

Firsts Shows Records Heard Influence Thirds Grades Amazing Things Most Amazing Soundtracks Diana Third Grade Wiz

Author:Jill Scott

“I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.”

Feels Firsts Problem Stupid Like You Grades You Re Stupid

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.”

Years School Girl Teacher Fields Achievement Projects Summer Track Clubs Ran Grades Senior Juniors Track And Field After School Senior Year Girl Scout Summer School

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.”

People Thinking Want Persons Made Character Lines Poverty College Grew Grew Up Built Stronger Average Grades Better Person

Author:Justin Bieber

“This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.”

Stories School Cards Loud Grades Valentine Saddest Grades In School

Author:William Shatner

“I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.”

Thinking Years Enough Five Teacher Six Smart Glad Five Years Grades

Author:Alan Shepard

“I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again.”

Want Missing Asking Grades Fourth 1960s Fourth Grade

Author:Grace Slick

“When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.”

Made Seems Found Christianity Thirds Grades Worldview Vedanta Profundity Third Grade

Author:Huston Smith

“In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass.”

Said Boys Mass Thirds Distinction Grades Priests Desks Garbage Altars Nun Knocked Down Third Grade Garbage Cans

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.”

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Author:Ben Stein

“I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.”

People Believe Made School Successful Don't Believe Grades Successful People Best School

Author:Ben Stein

“I was born in Patterson, New Jersey, and raised pretty much all around the country. My family tended to move from place to place following economic prospects and jobs and looking for new opportunities, so we changed schools, colleges, grade schools, high schools every 6 months to a year - depending on the breaks.”

“I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.”

Made Different States Song Pages My Friends Grades Profile Eighth Grade

Author:Taylor Swift

“My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.”

Mother Father Thirds Grades Los Angeles Aunt Third Grade

Author:Ice T

“Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.”

Children Jobs Enjoy Worry Too Much College Mark Bills My Children Grades Gates Formal Emphasis Formal Education Zuckerberg

Author:Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“My grandfather could barely read. My grandmother had a sixth-grade education. They were people who were industrious. They were frugal.”

People Grades Grandmother Grandfather My Grandmother My Grandfather Industrious Frugal Sixth Grade Barely Getting By

Author:Clarence Thomas

“I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.”

School Courses Levels Attention Known Students College Fundamentals Grades Basics Grades In School

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.”

Thinking Looks Ability Football Grades

Author:John Travolta

“When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.”

People Certain Social Money Hair Red Grades Haircuts Red Hair Ginger Hairdresser Auburn Hairdressing

Author:Mark Twain

“My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.”

School Mother Class Taught College Masters Dad My Dad Lifestyle Grades Working Class Mechanic Fifth Public School Harvard Bartender Sixth Grade Janitor Auto Mechanic

Author:Ben Affleck

“I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.”

Thinking Want Should Children Enough Able School America Pay Grades Wealthy Private Sector Pay The Price Good Grades Stay In School

Author:J. C. Watts

“We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.”

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Author:Evelyn Waugh

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