Grade Quotes

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

Leadership is like third grade: it means repeating the significant things.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

I'm actually the last person to ask about school. I kinda ducked out at 12, before all that stuff might have happened. I left school after sixth grade and was basically home-schooled after that.

I have been playing since the third grade. It just makes me happy.

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.

In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

The sixth grade made my life successful by preparing me for the seventh and the seventh by preparing me for the eighth and so on. May it do the same for you.

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

I've been writing plays since the third grade. The biggest difference now is that professionals act in them rather than eight year olds...and the language is a bit more "colorful".

I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around, and nearly every book represents what my son's third grade teacher refers to as a "teachable moment.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.

I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer than two weeks, but I didn't practice and I was faking it.

Growing up, I was always in the kitchen. Even in third grade, I made cooking videos called 'The Little Italian.' Very little production value, but it was good.

My best mentor is a mechanic - and he never left the sixth grade. By any competency measure, he doesn't have it. But the perspective he brings to me and my life is, bar none, the most helpful.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

I apologize for Pam. I accidentally hit her in the head with a baseball when we were in fifth grade and knocked her out cold. She’s never been right since. (Tory)

I played tournament chess from fifth grade up into high school.

I was obsessed with Agatha Christie in sixth grade.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

I didn't feel so different until maybe, like, around third grade. Kids started blaming me for my people killing Jesus.

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

In my fourth grade classroom, I even instituted a government structure, because I was really interested in people having positions and there being law.

"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

I'm sure kids had masturbated by sixth grade. I had for sure.

But I guess you would look beatific, too, if the man you had been in love with since the fifth grade had told you that he was in love with you, too.

I moved in fourth grade in the middle of the school year, and I was the new kid in school.

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

I did one pageant in sixth grade, and I loved it! I loved the dresses and the big hair.