(347 quotes found)
“I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.”
Peter Lynch
“Sam Baldwin: [looking at a photograph] She looks like my third grade teacher, and I hated my third grade teacher...... wait a minute, she IS my third grade teacher!”
Sleepless in Seattle
“There's a lot of talk if a seventh-grade girl returns in September all 'gothed out' or 'skatered out.'”
Atoosa Rubenstein
“Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to do it on your own. Nobody ever gave you a grade for learning how to play, how to ride a bicycle, or how to kiss. One of the best ways to destroy love for any of these activities would be through the use of grades, and the coercion and judgment they represent. Grades are a cudgel to bludgeon the unwilling into doing what they don't want to do, an important instrument in inculcating children into a lifelong subservience to whatever authority happens to be thrust over them.”
Derrick Jensen
“Four of our stations ran out of at least one grade of gas (on Wednesday) before we could get them supplied again. You can only respond so quickly.”
Jonathan Edwards
“Allah has granted a grade higher to those who strive and fight with their goods and persons than to those who sit at home”
quran
“I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.”
Duffy Daugherty
“This is really interesting. When I was in the 9th grade, I flunked 9th grade algebra. I couldn't cope with 9th grade algebra. And then I remember taking an aptitude test when I was a sophomore in high school, and they said, "You should probably consider not going to college." Then they said, "Well, what would you like to do?"”
John Warnock
“I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.”
Richard Dawson
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