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“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

“I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.”

School Moved Nine Grades Ninth Grade

Author:Jessica Stroup

“I don't really date. I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college. I've always thought that's what it's supposed to be like, and if it's not, then I don't want to waste my time on it. Even when I was 14, I was like, 'I'm not gonna marry this person. What's the point of doing it?' It's not me being naive. I just know what it's supposed to be like, and I think until I feel that, I cannot be bothered.”

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Author:Dakota Fanning

“I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.”

Years Three Half Taught Grades Half A Year Sixth Grade

Author:Ed Bradley

“Ive been wearing lipstick since I was in 7th grade. That was our form of daring self-expression, because we had to wear uniforms in school. It made our teachers so angry.”

Made Self School Form Teacher Expression Angry Grades Daring Uniforms Self Expression Lipstick

Author:Kourtney Kardashian

“I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!”

Firsts Would Be Able Party Study My Friends Grades Apartment Cheat Good Grades

Author:Mircea Monroe

“I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.”

Bigs Sides Teacher Students Mom My Mom Grades Emphasis Good Students Good Grades

Author:Tyler Hilton

“I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.”

Giving Reality Actors Known Industry My Friends Give Me Honestly Bunch Grades Lots Of Friends Sixth Grade

Author:Ashley Greene

“I actually wanted to be a forensic scientist for a while. When I was doing my Standard Grades, three of them were science subjects. The interest in science didnt wear off, but I found other interests.”

Wanted Three Found Interest Subjects Standards Scientist Grades Forensics

Author:Emun Elliott

“The town I grew up in was at least fifty percent Jewish, so every weekend in the 7th grade, we went to Bar and Bat Mitzvahs.”

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Author:Vanessa Bayer

“During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'”

Thinking Knows Wells Children Littles Two War Jobs Remember Girl Bits Little Bit Thirds Iraq Grades Gulf War Third Grade

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.”

People Men Stills Process Democracy He Man Higher Cost Prejudice Method Blame Investing Acquire Spite Grades Cost Of Living

Author:Laurence J. Peter

“The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.”

Lasts Next Generations Worst Entertainment Grades The Next One Worst Fear

Book:Flight Behaviour

Source: Flight Behaviour

“The mass of our citizens may be divided into two classes -- the laboring and the learned. The laboring will need the first grade of education to qualify them for their pursuits and duties; the learned will need it as a foundation for further acquirements.”

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Book:Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

Source: Early History of the University of Virginia: As Contained in the Letters of Thomas Jefferson and Joseph C. Cabell, Hitherto Unpublished; with an Appendix, Consisting of Mr. Jefferson's Bill for a Complete System of Education and Other Illustrative Documents; and an Introduction, Comprising a Brief Historical Sketch of the University, and a Biographical Notice of Joseph C. Cabell

“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.”

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Author:Jon Scieszka

“I remember one English teacher in the eighth grade, Florence Schrack, whose husband also taught at the high school. I thought what she said made sense, and she parsed sentences on the blackboard and gave me, I'd like to think, some sense of English grammar and that there is a grammar, that those commas serve a purpose and that a sentence has a logic, that you can break it down. I've tried not to forget those lessons, and to treat the English language with respect as a kind of intricate tool.”

“I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.”

Littles Problem School Guy Girl Bits Black Trouble Car Authority Loud Grades Jackets Leather Motorcycle Fingernails After School Leather Jackets

Author:Melissa Marr

“From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I am fearful of the harvest. The younger generation is further to the left than most adults realize. The old concepts of our Founding Fathers are scoffed and jeered at by young moderns whose goals appear to be the destruction of integrity and virtue, and the glorification of pleasure, thrills, and self-indulgence.”

“Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.”

Real Facts Understanding Ability Figures Genuine Grades Curriculum Bureaucrats Real Education

Author:Aaron Swartz

“In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.”

Class Novel Trouble Jokes Down And Pops Brilliant Bored Grades

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.”

“How many more years will our educators continue to lecture us on the evils of whipping children until they bring home high grades? Year after year we listen to these fellows tell us that it is not the grade that counts but the development of the child's personality. After the lecture they go back to all the best schools and reject our children because they have C averages.”

Years Children Home School Evil Education Personality Development Our Children Fellows Average Grades Rejects Lectures Educator All The Best Whipping Best School

Book:Poor Russell's almanac

Source: Poor Russell's almanac

“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.”

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Author:Wes Anderson

“I started playing guitar when I was in eighth grade, and that led to trying to write songs and trying to figure out how to play in bands. That led to meeting people, and getting into the local punk rock scene, and going to shows. So that was how I really got into the culture of it.”

People Writing Trying Play Shows Song Culture Rocks Figures Scene Band Meetings Guitar Locals Grades Punk Punk Rock Playing Guitar Eighth Grade

Author:Chris McCaughan

“The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived.”

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Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said "watch this."”

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Author:George Carlin

“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.”

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Author:Kathleen Hanna

“I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.”

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Author:Domo Genesis

“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.”

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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

“When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.”

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Author:Lauren DeStefano

“I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.”

People Mind Firsts Heart Art Kids School Three Higher Grades Division Heart And Mind Backbenchers

Author:Shiv Khera

“My mothers dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.”

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Author:Mike Rowe

“With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyos! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.”

People Kind Kids Found One Day Grades Recess Sixth Grade

Author:Jason Dolley

“I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.”

Writing Book Reports Grades Seventh Grade

Author:Cynthia Voigt

“I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.”

Jesus Teacher Tests Thirds Pops Grades Apostles Third Grade Quiz Bookworms

Author:Caroline Leavitt

“My mom is a public school teacher and works with third grade students.”

School Teacher Students Mom Thirds My Mom Grades Public School School Teachers Third Grade

Author:Jane McGonigal

“I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.”

Teacher Grades Allowing Smarter Ninth Grade

Author:Scott Hamilton

“I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.”

Hair Grades Back When Sixth Grade

Author:G-Eazy

“My grade point average went from a 2.2 to a 4.0 over the summer. I wanted to get straight A's. I decided to get straight A's. I didn't want people to think I was dumb. And when you get straight A's once, its easier.”

People Thinking Want Wanted Easier Summer Decided Average Dumb Grades

Author:Bill Gates

“I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic.”

Kids Used Hate Games Lost Loses Cry I Hate Grades

Author:Chris Bosh

“...I believed passionately that Communists were a race of horned men who divided their time equally between the burning of Nancy Drew books and the devising of a plan of nuclear attack that would land the largest and most lethal bomb squarely upon the third-grade class of Thomas Jefferson School in Morristown, New Jersey.”

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.”

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Author:Rebecca Harding Davis

“Kindliness seems to exist primarily as an animal instinct, so deeply rooted that mental degeneracy, which works from the top down,does not destroy it until the mind sinks to the lower grades of idiocy.”

Mind Doe Seems Animal Kindness Instinct Grades Rooted Idiocy Top Down Kindliness Animal Instinct

Book:Human Nature and the Social Order

Source: Human Nature and the Social Order

“A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.”

Has Beens School Education Wine Drunk Grades Alcoholics

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.”

“Raising children is a spur-of-the-moment, seat-of-the-pants sort of deal, as any parent knows, particularly after an adult child says that his most searing memory consists of an offhand comment in the car on the way to second grade that the parent cannot even dimly recall.”

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Author:Anna Quindlen

“When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.”