I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set.
I got sick of high school really quick, and I dropped out in 10th or 11th grade. I was in such a rush to grow up that I think I missed a lot of it.
Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.
I was a good student. By 8th grade, you've basically learned everything. By senior year, we was drinking, we was kickin' it, we was rapping. It wasn't really like business, hard work.
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.
I used to be the Number One scorer in 5th grade. I used to, yeah. I could always shoot deep.
When you're a kid you're already trying to create your own world and organize the one in front of you, but then you get all insecure around 6th grade and don't think you have a right to share that.
The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere nor the sun revolves....Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it.
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.
Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.
I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I was the only black girl in my grade. And I was just, like, really dorky. Like, I wasn't cool.
I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.
I saw a lot of movies that I probably shouldn't have seen. I saw 'Dog Day Afternoon' when I was in first grade - that kind of thing.
I have always been the tallest guy in my class, going back to first grade. Announcers have always had fun with it.
I started drawing in first grade. Because the kid next to me was drawing, and I remember thinking: I want to be able to do that!
It was probably in third grade - I had a super fake, gold herringbone chain. I don't remember if it was my mom's or how I got it, but ever since then, I've loved chains.
I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.
I was at all-white schools from kindergarten to twelfth grade, so I wanted to feel what it was like just to be me and not, like, Black Amy.
I have this bookmark with glued-on macaroni. I made it in the fourth grade while in detention for giving a girl a tattoo using two rocks rubbed together and a stick.
I know what you're thinking: why is Chris Rock bagging groceries? But I dropped out of high school in the tenth grade, so if I couldn't tell jokes this is exactly what I'd be doing.
I've always been a fan at home. That's the one joke I have with Sam [Champion]. "I've always loved you! I remember wanting to be you in grade school!"
In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.
I did attend Catholic schools up to the ninth grade, and I admire much in the Catholic Church.
I was trained on piano - that was part of grade school and high school.
My mom actually taught fifth grade, so... I'm good with fifth graders. That's, like, my specialty.
You can go as far back as fifth grade, and you will find me tinkering with media and computers, making things that are a little off the beaten track.
I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.
I would certainly look at a proposal for tuition-free community college for two years if the students kept a certain high grade-point average.
I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.
I think the first CD I actually went into a store to pick out myself was a Good Charlotte album... I went through a tomboy punk phase in the fourth grade.
I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.
When I was in grade school I was into chess club, Latin club, D&D, computer camp - everything that made vaginas go away.
My name's Todd but I changed it in the first grade because there was another kid named Todd and I didn't understand that that was possible.
Niggas on the internet know everything. You could make a freestyle tape in the fourth grade and they'll know about it.
I didn't play organized football until I was in the seventh grade. Up until that point, I only played at recess and in the backyard.
I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.
Unlike any other star kid, I didn't have any A-grade launch. I just did whatever came my way.
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.
I went to Catholic grade school, so we sang a lot of religious songs: 'O Holy Night,' 'Silent Night.'
We started making movies when we were really young, in the fourth grade... if you can call them movies.
In the end, I did end up repeating seventh grade.
I'm in my mid-40s now, and I came out in 11th grade, so I must have been 17. So that's quite a long time ago, and the temperature and the culture was different.
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.
The earliest recollection I have of being in the kitchen and cooking was in the third grade, and we lived in Germany. And I remember cooking scrambled eggs.
Like many American millennials, an 8th grade field trip first brought me into contact with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.
I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.
After about fourth grade, I do remember borrowing my mother's old portable Olivetti and typing stories out on the back of photocopies of journal articles.
I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.
I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.
I'm dyslexic, although they didn't have a word for it when I was in grade school. The teachers said I had 'word blindness.
I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.
I moved around 13 different times before I was in fifth grade, not having money, not having a lot of friends.
You have to edit it, mix it, color grade it, there are processes and the audience doesn't care when they binge-watch a show. They think in four weeks you should get the next season.
I remember in third grade, I asked my mom, 'How does an engine work?' So my mom bought me a book.
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