#grade

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me. ↗

— Jack White

#different #different way #family #grade #grade school

Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#down #drops #every #grade #ladder

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#degraded #fact #in fact #manly #men

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#auto #auto industry #because #detroit #economist

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#diligent #during #especially #grades #i

I walked to Seward School first through fourth grade. It's just amazing to me now that we'd walk down 10th Avenue on Capitol Hill. ↗

— Stone Gossard

#avenue #capitol #capitol hill #down #first

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#child #different #different way #gifted #good

I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#friends #gives #grade #honestly #i

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade. ↗

— Margaret Haddix

#i #second #started #third #trying

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#allowing #better #grade #had #i