I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.
All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.
There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.
The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.
I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade.
You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
I've only been in one fight in my whole life. . . in 7th grade, yet everyone thinks I'm a maniac.
There was a climber named Bridwell On grade I's he did well. But on grade VI, he got into a fix and rappelled to the talus and hid well.
When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue. But it didn't really translate into careers for any of them, because the external is the easy part.
I am the kind of dude that would go to your seventh grade class and sit at the back of the classroom and stare at all your butts.
I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in front of an audience was not going to be easy. It would be really hard to get people to pay attention to me without mocking me. Getting a breast reduction to prepare for my career was no different from people who work to get good grades to get into a good college to get into a good graduate school to get a good job. I went down to a B cup, and it was the best thing in the whole world.
We know – it has been measured in many experiments – that children with strong impulse control grow to be better adjusted, more dependable, achieve higher grades in school and college and have more success in their careers than others. Success depends on the ability to delay gratification, which is precisely what a consumerist culture undermines. At every stage, the emphasis is on the instant gratification of instinct. In the words of the pop group Queen, “I want it all and I want it now. ” A whole culture is being infantilised.
I got good grades but no particular comment stands out in my memory, I'm afraid. I was one of those annoying and rather boring model pupils.
I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.
Is he a sophomore?" Lydia says. "Please tell me he's in our grade. " "I don't know," I say. "But weren't you there when he came to the office?" Peyton says. "The secretary didn't get out her bullhorn and announce what grade he's in. She just took him to meet Headmaster Perkins.
Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".
"Margaret" was just my truth. It was what I knew to be true about sixth grade.