Grade Quotes

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9" to 6'8".

If children are reading well by the 3rd or 4th grade then everything else works.

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.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character.

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

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

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

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

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

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.

Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

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

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

I grew up taking piano lessons and liking Wagner when I was in second grade.

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn.

When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

From sixth grade on I was a real Pillsbury doughboy. Overweight, long hair, thick glasses.

I started working around eigth grade. I remember doing a Doritos commercial where there were four days in a row of eating them, and I will tell you, I have not eaten many Doritos since.

I was born in Everett; I went through grade school in Everett, high school in Seattle.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

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.

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room.