Grades Quotes

• The pressure on kids is high to get good grades. In my time, no one cared about it. My father looked at them but he didn't really make much fuss about them.

  

  Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Grades

• The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.

  

  Paul R. Ehrlich
  • Running
  • Plant
  • Issues

• Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Causes

• Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Reading
  • Realizing
  • Class

• And I watch all the dailies and I grade the jokes or the moments, you know, on a scale from... so I know exactly what we have. And so I can then go into the editing room and be like "I want you to do this moment, this moment, this joke, that joke. I'd like to see 3 versions."

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Moments
  • Jokes
  • Rooms

• 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.

  

  Ryan Sypek
  • Real
  • Play
  • Baseball

• God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • God
  • Crosses
  • Curves

• I knew school was stupid since the fifth grade.

  

  Schoolboy Q
  • Stupid
  • Grades
  • Fifth

• TEQUILA MENU Tequila is made from the fermented juice of the blue agave plant, and connoisseurs know there are four grades, just as there are grades of scotch or bourbon: blanco, bottled immediately; reposado, or “rested,” aged in oak for two months to less than a year; añejo, aged for at least a year; and extra añejo, aged for at least three years.

  

  Barbara O'Neal
  • Juice
  • Grades
  • Tequila

• According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

  

  Rick Perry
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• I wanted to be a jazz pianist, but I wasn't good enough. I got into city college because I didn't have the grades to get into university. I took acting because it was a way to get three credits. I just needed three credits and my friend told me to take acting because it was like gym - nobody fails you. I took it and that's literally how I got involved in acting.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • College
  • University
  • Jazz pianist

• I am a Beyonce fan. I’m gonna watch her upcoming documentary because fortunately one of the TVs in our kitchen has closed captioning so I’ll be able to understand what she says. You know Beyonce can’t talk. She sounds like she has a fifth grade education.

  

  Wendy Williams
  • Sound
  • Kitchen
  • Documentaries

• I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.

  

  Wes Anderson
  • Film
  • Feels
  • Excitement

• I was running since I was 10. Since grade one at school people looked at me and thought, oh gosh she can really run, she's a natural.

  

  Cathy Freeman
  • People
  • School
  • Running

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

  

  Michael Steger
  • School
  • Middle
  • Fourth

• I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

  

  Merce Cunningham
  • Giving
  • Students
  • Grades

• I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study.' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!

  

  Mircea Monroe
  • Would
  • Apartment
  • Grades

• Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Pleasure
  • Experiences
  • Grades

• I was never a class clown or anything like that, but I do remember being in the first grade and my teacher, Mr. Chad, told the class one day that we were going to do some exercises. He meant math exercises, but I stood up and started doing jumping jacks. To this day, I don't know what possessed me to do that, but all my friends cracked up.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Firsts
  • Class
  • Chad

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

  

  Rich Sommer
  • Social
  • Related
  • Grades

• If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

  

  Carlos Mencia
  • School
  • Goal
  • Tough

• I used to do a lot of story writing and storytelling coming up through grade school. By the time I got to college, I decided that I wanted to perform as well, and that's where I started.

  

  Rhea Seehorn
  • Writing
  • School
  • Storytelling

• I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • School
  • Able
  • Entertainers

• If faculty would relax their emphasis on grades, this might serve not to lower standards but to encourage an orientation toward learning.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Learning
  • Relax
  • Grades

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