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“I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.”

Thinking Teacher Grades Classroom Bad Grades

Author:Rachel Weisz

“I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York.”

Years School New York High School Grades Pennsylvania Eighth Grade School Years Rochester Lancaster

Author:Kristen Wiig

“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.”

Kind Running Fighting Middle Baby Busy Grades Too Busy Brian Troublemaker Trouble Maker Running Wild

Author:Dennis Wilson

“Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.”

Want Writing Novel Paper Humorous Letters Grades Papers Ladders Printed

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”

Firsts Art Creative Comedy Draws Thirds Paint Guitar Drawing Abstract Grades Abstract Art Third Grade

Author:Steven Wright

“I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.”

Writing Firsts Levels Findings Computer Program Deeper Grades

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

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

School High School Chess Grades Fifth Tournaments Fifth Grade

Author:Chris Hardwick

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

Life Higher Jokes Seeds Soil Grades Covered Manure Moveable Feast

Book:Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

Source: Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

“She's in tenth grade,' he said. 'I hear she's been homeschooled till now.' Maybe that explains it,' I said.”

Said Grades Stargirl

Book:The Stargirl Collection

Source: The Stargirl Collection

“The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.”

Way Different Use Hands Girl Strong Enjoy Boys Different Ways Grades Melody Vocal Dilemma Filthy Boy And Girl Making Up Catchy Eighth Grade

Book:Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To

“I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning labels: Caution: contains characters and plots guaranteed to induce sleepiness. Do not attempt to operate heavy machinery after ingesting more than one chapter. Has been known to cause blindness, seizures and a terminal loathing of literature. Should only be taken under the supervision of a highly trained English teacher. Preferably one who grades on the curve.”

“There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.”

Ifs Universe Perfect All Things Grades

Book:Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation

Source: Summa Contra Gentiles, 2: Book Two: Creation

“But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples, and apple cheeks so rosy I appear in a perpetual blush. At five foot four, I barely squeak by average height. And then there's my voice: straight out of second grade. I come across so young and innocent and harmless that I have been carded for buying maple syrup. Tourists feel more safe approaching me for directions, telemarketers always ask if my mother is home, and waitresses always, always call me 'Hon.”

“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!”

Knows Wells Sometimes Kids School Funny Moving Class Grades Grades In School Hobbes Bad Grades

Author:Bill Watterson

“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”

“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

“So top grade's O for 'Outstanding,'" Hermione was saying, "and then there's A-" "No, E," George corrected her, "E for 'Exceeds Expectations.' And I've always thought Fred and I should've got E in everything, because we exceeded expectations just by turning up for the exams.”

Should Expectations Grades Exceed Outstanding Exam Hermione Fred Weasley Fred And George George Weasley

Author:J. K. Rowling

“My teacher in first grade said that long ago people used to believe all kinds of things, because they didn't know any better. Like you shouldn't take a bath, because it could make you sick. And then someone saw germs under a microscope and started to think differently. You can believe something really hard, and still be wrong. (Faith White)”

People Thinking Knows Firsts Believe Kind Long Said Stills Hard Used White Saws Teacher Like You Sick All Kinds Grades Long Ago Baths Germs Microscopes

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I am embarrassed to admit what drew me to psychology. I didn't want to go to medical school. I was getting good grades in psychology and I was charismatic and people in the psychology department liked me. It was as low a level as that.”

People Want School Levels Psychology Lows Medical Department Grades Embarrassed Charismatic Medical School Good Grades

Author:Ram Dass

“You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!”

Thinking Knows Giving Sometimes Today Cutting Flower Circumstances Library Grades Gowns Handshake

Author:Barack Obama

“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

“It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?”

“It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.”

Wisdom Age Funny Grows Mistake Regard Aging Grades Climbs Surprising Reverse Old People Elders Stride Growing Older Dissolution Funny Aging

Author:George Sand

“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.”

Children Book School Numbers Library Grades Librarian Library Books Libraries And Librarians Grades In School School Library

Author:Erma Bombeck

“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.”

Might Baby Weapons Males Bottom Grades Blanket Sophie Beta

Book:A Dirty Job: A Novel

Source: A Dirty Job: A Novel

“believe that you've had most of your important memories by the time you're thirty. After that, memory becomes water overflowing into an already full cup. New experiences just don't register in the same way or with the same impact. I could be shooting heroin with the Princess of Wales, naked in a crashing jet, and the experience still couldn't compare to the time the cops chased us after we threw the Taylors' patio furniture into their pool in eleventh grade.”

Way Believe Stills Important Water Memories Impact Naked Cups Shooting Compare Thirty Grades Pool Princess Cop Furniture Jet Register Heroin Wales New Experiences

Author:Douglas Coupland

“If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.”

Ifs Thinking Should School Known Should Have Grades Annoying Grades In School Should Have Known

Author:Dave Eggers

“Being in love with someone who doesn't even know you exist isn't the worst thing in the world. In fact, it's quite the oppostie. Almost like passing in a term paper that you know sucked, but having that period of time where you haven't gotten your grade back yet -- that kind of exhale where you haven't been rejected, although you pretty much know how it's going to turn out.”

Knows World Kind Facts Turns Term Know How Worst Havens Periods Paper Passing Passings Grades Rejected Worst Things Being In Love Term Paper

Author:Tonya Hurley

“[My mom's] funny that way, celebrating special occasions with blue food. I think it's her way of saying anything is possible. Percy can pass seventh grade. Waffles can be blue. Little miracles like that.”

Thinking Way Littles Special Mom Miracle Blue My Mom Celebrate Occasions Grades Anything Is Possible Waffles Seventh Grade Special Occasion

Author:Rick Riordan

“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”

Father Rooms Gone Grades Eighth Grade

Book:The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.”

Havens Grades Latin Ninth Grade

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it”

Mother Grades Protective Butlers Jewish Mother Zifnab

Author:Margaret Weis

“All I could think of was that the teachers must've found the illegal stash of candy I'd been selling out of my dorms room. Or maybe they'd realized I got my Essay on Tom Sawyer from the Internet without ever reading the book and now they were going to take away my grade. Or worse, they were going to make me read the book.”

Source: Percy Jackson: The Complete Series

“My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd.”

Years School Four Dad My Dad Track Managers Grades Cows Grammar Herds Cattle Acres Eighth Grade Grammar School

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Janie: Did you ever sell drugs? Cabel: Yes. Pot. Ninth and tenth grade. I was, uh...rather troubled back then. Janie: Why did you stop? Cabel: Got busted, and Captain made me a better deal. Janie: So you've been a narc since then? Cabel: I cringe at your terminology.”

Made Deals Drug Sells Grades Pot Captains Cringe Terminology Busted Janie

Author:Lisa McMann

“A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.”

Real Girl Failing Grades Life Or Death Gallagher Gallagher Girl

Book:Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)

Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy (B&N Custom Pub)

“Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.”

Knows Sometimes Fear Can Do Realizing Behinds Newspapers Knees Girlfriend Grades Sickness Horizon Cages Behind You Dots Sneak Hang In There Puke Seventh Grade Canaries Best Girlfriend

Author:Jennifer Rardin

“I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.”

Writing Memoir Grades Incapable Publishers

Author:Mitch Albom

“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

“When you are a kid you have your own language, and unlike French or Spanish or whatever you start learning in fourth grade, this one you are born with, and eventually lose...Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult...is only a slow sewing it shut.”

Thinking Kids Language Born Loses Brain Becoming Adults Wide Grades Fourth Cracked Sewing Fourth Grade Becoming An Adult

Author:Jodi Picoult

“Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.”

“[Lennie meets Joe - he works out that she was named after John Lennon] I nod. "Mom was a hippie." This is northern Northern California after all - the final frontier of freakerdom. Just in the eleventh grade we have a girl named Electricity, a guy named Magic Bus, and countless flowers: Tulip, Begonia, and Poppy - all parent-given-on-the-birth-certificate names. Tulip is a two-ton bruiser of a guy who would be the star of out football team if we were the kind of school that has optional morning meditation in the gym”

“I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things.”

Said Would Be Reading Needed Paper Blessed Senses Grades Professors Academic Papers

Book:Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition

Source: Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2006 Edition

“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

“I'm so excited about school. I'm such a shameless student. I laid my clothes out last night, just like I did before my first day of first grade, with my patent leather shoes and my new lunch box. I hope the teacher will like me :)”

Firsts School Lasts Night Teacher Students Clothes Shoes Boxes Excited Like Me Grades Lunch Last Night Leather Patents Shameless Leather Shoes

Book:The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had some drawing talent, you could tell, but Simon's sketches of people all looked like parking meters with tufts of hair.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.”

World Different Kids School Girl Parent Enjoy Enemy Teacher High School Okay Species Awful Ran Grades Different Worlds School Life

Author:Natsuo Kirino

“One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or gifts. When, in disgust or discouragement, we allow ourselves to reach depressive levels of despair because of our demeaning self-appraisal, it is a sad day for us and a sad day in the eyes of God. For us to conclude that we have no gifts when we judge ourselves by stature, intelligence, grade-point average, wealth, power, position, or external appearance is not only unfair but unreasonable.”