#grade

Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#aisle #appears #best #best friend #books

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York. ↗

— Kristen Wiig

#eighth grade #grade #high-school #i #lancaster

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#does #human #must #retrograde

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#appear #available #beliefs #bring #change

I grew up in a very small, close-knit, Southern Baptist family, where everything was off-limits. So I couldn't wait to get to college and have some fun. And I did for the first two years. And I regret a lot of it, because my grades were in terrible shape. I never got in serious trouble, except for my grades. ↗

— John Grisham

#because #college #did #everything #except

When I was in seventh grade my mom caught me smoking cigarettes and punished me by making me smoke the entire carton. All it did was piss me off because I was out of cigarettes. ↗

— Pink

#caught #cigarettes #did #entire #grade

In fourth grade I had a high school reading level, but I didn't want to go to school and I didn't feel I belonged there. ↗

— Freddie Prinze

#feel #fourth #go #grade #had

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#love

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard. ↗

— Ben Affleck

#bartender #college #dad #fifth #go