Grades Quotations

I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time.

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

Stephen Hawking said he spent most of his first couple of years at Cambridge reading science fiction (and I believe that, because his grades weren't all that great).

I grew up in a one-parent family. I worked my way through college, I had very average grades and I was very average looking, but I've lived a remarkable life only because I believed I could.

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade.

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

A boy or girl who has gone through the eight grades should possess a complete, practical education and should have received special training in some specific line of work, fitting him or her to earn a livelihood.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

When I was in 10th grade, I took one of those tests that's supposed to tell you what you should be when you grow up. The test told me that I should be a journalist.

I hardly ever missed school, and I always got my work in on time. I was a good student and always got top grades.

I was a bit of a delinquent growing up, a very poor student - I nearly failed several grades before dropping out of high school and getting a G.E.D. But I still read a lot. Thrillers and war novels, mostly, along with the occasional literary novel from my parents' bookshelf.

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

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

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

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.

When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 years of Catholic school, but I was always writing these weird - and, I have to say, really bad - stories, filled with murder.

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

I was slicking my hair back when I was in sixth grade.

When somebody turned me on to a Coltrane record around seventh grade, I took up saxophone.

Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.

I never cared what kind of grade I got.

I've only been in one fight in my whole life... in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general.

I changed my name from Gail to Gayle in seventh grade because I liked to make a loopy 'y.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Many jobs at Google require math, computing, and coding skills, so if your good grades truly reflect skills in those areas that you can apply, it would be an advantage. But Google has its eyes on much more.

In fourth grade, I missed 82 days of school. Out of 160.

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

First grade is very cheap. It's the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don't do it right.

We're in good shape with that. Our grades have been good. We're in good shape in that area.

We're going to have a grading system for the players. As coaches we'll give grades so the players know how they have done on the field. What I really want is for all of the players to feel like they got a fair shot.

We would prefer that students in the earliest grades have the benefits of a smaller class taught by a qualified teacher, and we are striving to make this happen.

I read Holes in 10th grade, and I havent read a full book since. The movie version with Shia LaBeouf was OK, but the book was way better.

We want our kids to hustle to the center, stay off their back, be aggressive, keep their grades up and do the other stuff off the mat. Do all of that and good things will happen.

We want to target kids in grades five through eight. It could fit very nicely into the media studies curriculum.

I was forced to go to Cotillion when I was in seventh grade. So I learned what fork is what and dance steps.

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

We are going to know what is going on with learning in grades 3 to 8, and we are testing for that, so the light will shine.

We're anxious to get those grades back. A couple of guys are on the bubble so to speak. It's important that we get the job done.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

We're not caught up in rumors. We don't know what the plan is. We'll cross that bridge if it comes. Obviously, his grades are good enough for him to go on to college.

She's just an average teenager. She was an honor roll student but lately she's been in the boy world and her grades started dropping. Just stuff girls do.

She's been one of those people that has been able to play both sports, keep her grades up and then she, (teammate) Mandy (Lance) and (team chaplain) Todd Allen have started a Wednesday night youth group. All of her ducks are in a row.

She's dedicated. She cross-trains all summer long. Her grades are excellent. I think that comes from having to deal with deaf parents.

Since I've been in this program, my grades have improved greatly. Thanks to their tutoring, I was able to get a good score on the ACTs.

Since I moved here, it's been just about bringing my (grade-point average) up. If I can get my grades up and focus, maybe I can get into college.

Most students appeal their grades because they feel like they have been unfairly treated. For example, a student might appeal their grades because they had excessive absences and got what he or she thought was an unfair grade.

Most of these kids would be playing Division 1 football if they had better grades and that is kind of what they are doing here, trying just to get their grades up.

One of the things that I am most proud of is that I have been able to keep up my grades even with all the other stuff going on. But I've been lucky because I have had a lot of good teachers and coaches who saw potential in me and brought that out. They help you through the tough times, and I appreciate them and all they have done for me.

One of our immediate goals will be to characterize each of these controlling structures in detail. This will allow the higher grades on these structures to be modeled separately with a significantly higher cut-off, leading to an increased grade overall and more contained ounces in the resource block.

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

Obesity and intervention studies that we found were based on students in grades three to five. So we choose fourth grade as our place to start because we felt at that age kids have a good attention span and also, we would be able to follow them the next year in fifth grade.

One of the deals coach Durham and I cut was that if Sean kept his grades up, we'd allow him to play. He's done that in the fall. We're pulling for him, and we're excited for him that he can help the baseball team out. Overall it seems like he's done a very good job of handling both.

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

If these two bills are passed on radio spectrum and allocation of funds, the grades will quickly switch to a B or an A.

I got my predicted grades at school this year and I've told them I aim to keep up that standard while I'm away.

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

If we could get consistent pitching and get the fundamentals down, we'll be OK. We've got two good pitchers and we've got a nice little squad here. We've got a mixture of grades and we're picking each other up.

Based on the projection that the total enrollment is 32,000 for the 2012-13 school year, we are projecting that grades 9-12 will have 8,855 students.

Basketball is great, but they're not going to find you in middle school. You've got to get your grades up and get to college.

I'm all for guys playing other sports as long as their grades don't fall and they're contributing. If they're not contributing, if they're just sitting there, then they need to be back over here, getting ready to play.

I make no guarantees, but if I see a good athlete with good grades and test scores who really wants an education, and wants to play football, and is willing to go away from home, I try hard to make the fit.

I had hit a brick wall. I had gotten injured, and my grades were failing and I had to do something.

I have a tough grading system, but I had a couple of the lowest grades ever.

If anything, I think my grades will improve this semester. The classes I have here this semester are much easier than what I was taking at Xavier.

Given the poor grades that Texas received ... it is amazing that student achievement continued to improve over the last decade. We must, however, be concerned that the chickens will eventually come home to roost and the current inadequately funded system will no longer be able to provide the gains in achievement that we have seen in the past.

He's grown and he's gotten a lot stronger. He's gotten a lot better technique wise. He got into the weight room and worked hard. He's also a smart kid. He's always kept his grades up. He's a good athlete and a good student.

He has all the tools scouts love. You can give him great grades on a report card and look great because everyone can see the talent. He has an awful lot of talent, a lot of potential, but he has never gotten it done consistently. Maybe this time it will be different because the Padres have a lot at stake when they make a final decision on him.

I actually got better grades during football season, when I had no time, because I had to bear down and work a little harder.

Heck I didn't think I was going to play football in college. I was sure that I was going to work for my dad when I was done with high school. So getting good grades in high school was never a high priority for me.

I think the grades are accurate, unfortunately. There are so many states that are smoke free - I think New Jersey got 'A's across the board - I think our grades are fair, as sad as that is.

I was working hard over the summer to get my grades straight to maintain eligibility when I noticed that I had been listed at third string. I was at summer school. One of the coaches told me that word was going around that I wouldn't pass my classes but I ended up passing my classes.

I was able to get great grades and I worked hard at it. I felt I was a role model for the kids I was around by being a good worker and a good student.

OPEC is producing as much crude oil as anybody wants. Refiners have no shortage of the grades they need. But it's out of OPEC's hands to bring the price down.

OPEC is producing as much crude oil as anybody wants, ... Refiners have no shortage of the grades they need. But it's out of OPEC's hands to bring the price down.

Our club members will be wearing their T-shirts, and children in grades three through seven will help out as ushers. Our 4- and 5-year-olds will be singing and two of the junior high girls will read Scripture. Additionally, a leader will share with the congregation what the clubs have been doing in the past year.

Research shows that when a low-income family moves into a new home, the kids' grades go up.