#grade

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade. ↗

— Vince Carter

#dunk #first #grade #sixth

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#books #christmas #did #dummy #eight

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#college #daughter #grade #high #high school

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status. ↗

— Susan George

#consume #downgrade #going #more #more and more

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#men #progressive #retrograde #stationary #three

I was reading five or six years ahead of my grade during public school. I was pretty bored. I made a contract with some of my teachers that if I didn't ask too many questions, I could work in the back of the room. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#ask #back #bored #contract #could

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#away #bad #because #before #did

Of mediumship there are many grades, one of the simplest forms being the capacity to receive an impression or automatic writing, under peaceful conditions, in an ordinary state; but the whole subject is too large to be treated here. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

#being #capacity #conditions #forms #grades

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on. ↗

— James Marsters

#art #back #connected #either #fourth

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#decayed #degraded #feeling #moral #much