Elementary Quotes

• Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

  

  Karl Ferdinand Braun
  • Different
  • Fraction
  • Crystal

• A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles and not be forced to state them a priori.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Theory
  • Rational
  • Particles

• We're confident (the state board) will uphold the elementary appeal and it will be a good way to win the trust of the district.

  

  Doug Jackson Ambrosia
  • Good
  • State
  • Confident

• The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically, expresses an aspiration for order.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Order
  • Rebellion
  • Aspiration

• My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to school and graduated as class valedictorian - the only one of her seven siblings to finish high school. She became a librarian and then a United Methodist minister.

  

  Stacey Abrams
  • School
  • Mother
  • Around

• The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Experience
  • Laws
  • Physicist

• Obviously that is the most elementary thing that we've got to make sure we can take for granted on every snap.

  

  Bret Bielema
  • Granted
  • Elementary
  • Snap

• I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability.

  

  Mike Scully
  • School
  • Supporter
  • Encouraged

• When I attained my seventh year, my father, whose ear was unmusical but who was nevertheless passionately fond of music, gave me my elementary lessons on the violin; in a very few months, I was able to play all manner of compositions at sight.

  

  Niccolò Paganini
  • Lessons
  • Passionately
  • Nevertheless

• People have called me Ha Ha since I was in elementary school, so that's just what it's been.

  

  Ha Ha Clinton-Dix
  • School
  • Just
  • Been

• When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents.

  

  Eunhyuk
  • School
  • Coach
  • Talents

• I started playing piano and guitar when I was in elementary school, and then I was finally like, 'I want to sing.' So I started taking voice lessons and decided I wanted to go to an art school and take music seriously.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Guitar
  • Lessons
  • Started

• My elementary school teachers were big on pushing kids to read. If you read a certain amount of books, they would provide you with incentives, sort of like what we are doing with the WrestleMania Reading Challenge.

  

  Rey Mysterio
  • School
  • Reading
  • Certain

• Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • School
  • Youth
  • University

• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Something
  • Plays
  • Audiences

• Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and kids that age can be so closed-minded. I mean, I went to a little Catholic school in the San Fernando Valley! My life was so different from the other kids'.

  

  Katy Rose
  • Different
  • School
  • Mean

• I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Difficult
  • Because
  • Intellectual

• I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

  

  Raven Goodwin
  • Mom
  • Needs
  • Elementary

• I did teach elementary school for quite a while, and so I didn't have to reach too far back for the titles and authors that populate the early chapters 'of The Borrower.'

  

  Rebecca Makkai
  • Reach
  • Chapters
  • Borrower