Grades Quotes

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. (Havelock Ellis)
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out. View quote
Kent McCord
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. View quote
Levon Helm
I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. View quote
Steve Case
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. View quote
Stockwell Day
We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that. View quote
Jack LaLanne
The ideal student would be one who was not working for grades but was working because he was interested in the work and not trying to compete with fellow students. View quote
Carl David Anderson
Siphonophores do not convey the message-a favorite theme of unthinking romanticism-that nature is but one gigantic whole, all its parts intimately connected and interacting in some higher, ineffable harmony. Nature revels in boundaries and distinctions; we inhabit a universe of structure. But since our universe of structure has evolved historically, it must present us with fuzzy boundaries, where one kind of thing grades into another. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
The ecological principle of unity in diversity grades into a richly mediated social principle; hence my use of the term social ecology. View quote
Murray Bookchin
One thing about school - I always had this attitude that I was in school to learn, and attempted to do whatever was involved in that process, while school had this attitude that I was there to earn grades, which I couldn't care less about. Unsurprisingly, my grades weren't very good. View quote
Bram Cohen
We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress, in scholastic grades or golf scores. [...] One is often tempted to say that conflict, rather than cooperation, is the great governing principle of human life. View quote
S. I. Hayakawa
It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good of patience would not exist without the evil of persecution; nor the good of preservation of life in a lion if not for the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia. View quote
Fannie Flagg
I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married. View quote
Debbie Macomber
We are all in the business of sales. Teachers sell students on learning, parents sell their children on making good grades and behaving, and traditional salesmen sell their products. View quote
Dave Ramsey
Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
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. View quote
Anthony Mackie
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing. (Merce Cunningham)
Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians. View quote
Christina Hoff Sommers
You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that. View quote
Barry Sanders
I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive. View quote
Christine Ebersole
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades. View quote
Duffy Daugherty