#grade

Since 1998, the Administration has begun to upgrade counterintelligence and security at U.S. weapons labs. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#begun #counterintelligence #labs #security #since

I only finished first grade. ↗

— Amnat Ruenroeng

#first #grade #i #only

If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer... If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#crete #dreams #greece #happiness #jack-r-kearns

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#grades #grading #teachers #teaching #education

Tugs was surprised to find that the cake was actually pretty dry and not as good as the cakes her own mother made. It was a revelation. Tugs had assumed that tastier food came out of fancier houses. ↗

— Anne Ylvisaker

#middle-grade #thoughtful #food

Robert said, "This is great, huh? Sorry to butt in and everything, but I really need the extra points. For my grade." Ben nodded and tried to smile. Right, for his grade. He probably wanted to get an A++ in social studies instead of just an A+ ↗

— Andrew Clements

#grades #school #funny

Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity. ↗

— Kevin Swanson

#kevin #school #swanson #upgrade #education

I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends. ↗

— Tonya Harding

#before #different #different times #fifth #friends

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#competing #degraded #distribution #equitable #fighting

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#acquiring #after #any #called #consent