Quotes of: Grades Keyword

the weekly thirty minutes of sexual stress was a chronic but low-grade discomfort, like the humidity in Florida

Freedom

You surround yourself with amazing, grade-A talent, and you're going to have to lift your game. You kind of thrive just by being around such people.

Joe Lo Truglio

My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.

Tom DeLonge

grades really cover up failure to teach.

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.

Albert Brooks

I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.

Bellamy Young

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

Rocky Graziano

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

Sarah Paulson

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

Tamora Pierce

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 was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

Linwood Barclay

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Rich Sommer

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.

Dave Ramsey

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Joe Biden

In the state of Wisconsin it's mandated that teachers in the social sciences and hard sciences have to start giving environmental education by the first grade, through high school.

Gaylord Nelson

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.

Joe Baca

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

David Einhorn

Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies.

Peter Gallagher

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.

Anthony Mackie

There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad.

Bill Dedman