#grade

I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all about performance and just finding any way that I could to be involved in any kind of production. ↗

— Jennifer Garner

#any #bad #could #did #elder

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#does #human #must #retrograde

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades. ↗

— Levon Helm

#grades #high #high school #i #me

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

— Tom Verlaine

#coltrane #grade #i #me #record

We must remember that the mortals prefer plant-life for food, for next time.” The other statue nodded in agreement and replied. “Yes. Every day we learn new things Donkor. These mortals have some funny ways don’t they?” - Quest Two: The Cursed Nile ↗

— S.W. Lothian

#adventure #middle-grade #food

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. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#fifth #fourth #go #grade #i

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. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#ads #anyone #applications #book #children

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#first-rate #four #good #grades #into

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. ↗

— George Weinberg

#benefit #columbia #could #course #educated

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. ↗

— Jason Wiles

#assume #book #character #city #clown