I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
It was very weird when my classmates were getting hundred-thousand-dollar cars because that was so not my reality.
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
The first bet I remember was on the Chargers in Super Bowl 29 with my classmates. I lost a lot of weeks' allowance.
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.
When I was in the second grade, I learned that I looked different from my classmates.
Even as a kid, classmates asked pointed personal questions about my family. I have conditioned myself to handle it with maturity.
Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.
I've grown up with the same people my whole life. I've had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.
When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't particularly well coordinated either, which made me a bit of a liability in P.E.
I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.
Each part of my life provided respite from the other and gave me a sense of proportion that classmates trained only on law studies lacked.
When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
I remember telling my classmates when I was 8-years-old that (being a sportscaster) is what I wanted to do. That was the only thing I ever wanted to do with my life.
I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.
For many parents - myself included - I would be extremely happy for my children to grow up finding that their LGBT classmates are exactly the same as them.
I have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.
I was in sixth grade at Koko Head Elementary School in Honolulu, and was chosen to pin the 50th star on the American flag in front of my teachers and classmates at a special assembly to celebrate statehood.
I used to take a recorder around and interview my parents and do impressions of my classmates as guests on my show.
Students who have spent their childhood here in Florida deserve to qualify for the same in-state tuition rate at universities their peers and classmates do.
My sense of my own superiority over many of my classmates would have been much more muted if I knew that they had seen me failing miserably at woodwork or cross-stitch.
I didn't like my classmates at Yale. George W.Bush was in my class. I didn't know it then.
I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.
I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
I really was more sexual than my classmates.
I occasionally go to a yoga class. Everyone looks so limber and coordinated compared to me. I feel like I scare my classmates.
A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.
I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.
I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.
They tried to believe in their classmates. They must have believed that if we could all get together, then we might end up being saved. We should commend them for that. We couldn't do that.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'
I was ahead of my classmates in some ways. While they were enjoying Mills & Boons, I was reading Ayn Rand.
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that.
Yeah, I’m thinking it’s a reunion or, since it is our classmates, a collection of idiots. Let’s call it a meese. Like geese, only with morons. (Caleb)
One of society's thorniest problems is that children from poor families start school lagging badly behind their more affluent classmates in readiness.
When I left high school - I was younger than my classmates, just 17 - I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I thought, 'When I go to college, I'd rather study something else.'
I had stopped writing plays set in villages because they were not relevant to my experiences and I knew my English classmates wouldn't appreciate them.
I actually went to law school with Jim Comey. We were in the same class, and he was respected by our classmates just like he was respected by the agents that he supervised.
The history of the British empire, the chapter of our national story that would have explained to my classmates why a child born in Nigeria was sat among them, was similarly missing from the curriculum.
I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.
I don't think any of my classmates would say I was a class clown.
While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.
I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
I wasn't into making classmates laugh - or any of the comedy cliches. I wanted to disappear. I was a nonentity. I wasn't too clever but I wasn't in the bottom group. I wasn't loud but I wasn't quiet. I wasn't a bully and I wasn't bullied.
I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.
My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me.
Fortunately, unlike my teachers and classmates, my parents never forced gender roles or even a ended identity on me. I grew up on a farm, so all that mattered was working hard.
I didn't grow up to become a mechanic - but some of my classmates did. And they've been able to build good, middle class lives for themselves and their families.
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
I felt intimidated the entire time I was in school by my teachers and classmates. But I just knew acting was something I wanted to do.
When you're 10, 11, 12, and you're watching your idols, you feel like you know them. I found more in common with these people when they talked in interviews than I did with my classmates.
I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.
As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.
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