Grade Quotes - page 12

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. (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! View quote
Jill Scott
I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten. View quote
Joan Ganz Cooney
Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence. View quote
Joe Baca
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well. View quote
John Barrasso
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.' View quote
John Henrik Clarke
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. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. View quote
Jonathan Kozol
I remember in second grade, everybody in the class had to come up with adjectives for each other, and I got shy. In a way, I force myself to perform, because if I didn't, I'd stay home rolled up in a ball watching 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' all day. View quote
June Diane Raphael
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. View quote
Kendall Jenner
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. (Keyshawn Johnson)
I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York. View quote
Kristen Wiig
From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive and supportive fifth grade teacher. View quote
Karen Hesse
My entire high school career - my entire school career - I've been like three feet taller than everyone in my grade. View quote
Karlie Kloss
I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set. View quote
Lacey Chabert
Everybody either wanted to take care of me or push me around, you know? I was teased a lot, sure I was, of course. Fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, everybody was taking their spurts except me. I was not growing up. View quote
Linda Hunt
I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say. View quote
Lizzy Caplan
Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade. View quote
LZ Granderson
I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. View quote
Lauren Tarshis
I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet. View quote
Laverne Cox
I used to not stutter any. Oh, I did when I was a kid, I stuttered, I had a bad stutter until I was probably between the second and third grade and a guy got rid of it for me. (Lee Hazlewood)
I was in seventh grade, and getting a part in Full House was huge. It opened so many doors for me. View quote
Marla Sokoloff
I have always enjoyed performing, but I think when I was in the fifth grade was when I discovered that I really loved acting. View quote
Cindy Busby
When I was in fifth grade, a boy put a rose on my desk and I threw it away. The attention makes me nervous. View quote
Claire Coffee
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian. View quote
Casey Nicholaw