Top 1200 Good Grades Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I was voted valedictorian, and at my school it wasn't based on grades; that was the popular vote.

It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

Growing up as a kid, in elementary and middle school, I was always getting in trouble. Always getting suspended. I got suspended for 90 days for fighting beginning my freshman year, so I missed Homecoming, and that's when I turned the page. I went on honor roll and had good grades after that. It was the changing point.

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

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

I think confidence is something you build gradually, with experience. I've always felt that maybe one of the reasons that I did well as a student and made such good grades was because I lacked confidence. I never felt that I was prepared to take an examination, and I had to study a little bit extra.

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

God grades on the Cross not on the curve.

I always liked my teachers, and I was in a lot of after-school projects. I was a Girl Scout until my senior year, when I couldn't be a Girl Scout anymore. I was in clubs like Junior Achievement, and I ran track and field. My grades were good, but then toward 11th grade they were nothing. I always went to summer school.

I was always a good student. I wasn't the A-plus student, but I studied really hard, and I probably had a 3.2. I always wished that I had the capacity to get straight A's, but I didn't. I didn't beat myself up about it, but I really studied hard for my grades.

I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

It's kind of shocking to me, actually, that I've almost been stereotyped, in a way - physically - because, I didn't get good grades in school; I got in a lot of fights. I wear glasses because I don't want something tugging my eyeball, but I wouldn't consider myself a 'nerd.' I don't know what really makes someone a nerd.

I'm passionate about schoolwork because I don't like getting bad grades.

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

I would not recommend a teen getting into modeling if they're not solid when it comes to their grades and school. That comes first.

My brother was the first to be home-schooled, and one reason they home-schooled me was so he wouldn't get jealous. Another thing is my mom noticed that I would stress out a lot about school. I would ask my teacher how good my grades were and think about that all the time.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don’t come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, "What did you do for the summer?" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper.

I knew I had to get my grades so that I could focus on football.

Forces of Destruction: grades in school, merit system, incentive pay, business plans, quotas.

For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

In Jamaica we had the English way of schooling from the age of four, so when I got to America I was already a few years advanced because I started school at the age of three-and-a-half rather than six and my grades moved up accordingly. In America, they start you at school at six because the grades are different. I had to take a test and they didn't know what to do with me. It wasn't that I was any smarter; I had just started younger. All of a sudden I was jumped from eighth to tenth grade. They said I was very smart, but I was only smart in languages, really.

I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

Don't buy upgrades, ride up grades.

I was obsessed. I wouldn't quit. My grades suffered. I didn't care.

A school without grades must have been concocted by someone who was drunk on non-alcoholic wine.

The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.

I flunked three grades before I got out of high school.

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

Plays have a celebratory nature that no other form has. Theater always meant celebration, a birthday, a reward for good grades. I felt at home in a theater. I loved being part of an audience. All the rules - the audience has to see the play on a certain date at a certain time in a certain place in a certain seat.

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.

I had no money, no grades, no athletic ability. Nothing but hope.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.

I wasn't a great student. Just give me a school with no grades, and I'll be happy.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

I was pretty smart in school in terms of grades and stuff. I just got the bug to do music.

My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Uh, what are you doing?” “Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out what happened, but I’m making it look like a computer error. Still, I imagine she’ll get some nasty lectures from her profs and parents in the meantime.

I've been acting since I was young because I wanted to, not because my parents wanted me to. My dad is a principal and mom is a middle school counselor, so acting was like, "Eh, whatever. As long as you get good grades." It's really fun, and nothing more.

Grades are a subjective rating masquerading as an objective evaluation.

Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.

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

I don't want to give myself grades. I will leave evaluation of my achievements to history.

Grades dilute the pleasure that a student experiences on successfully completing a task.

I was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

In the best classrooms, grades are only one of many types of feedback provided to students.

I'm a great believer that the most important years are the sort of early years but the preschool years and then into the first and second grades. If you get a good base in the first and second grade and you can read, you can do anything.

I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine.

I wanted to go to LaGuardia High School for acting, but my math grades weren't high enough. So I didn't get to go to a school that was geared toward the art that I was interested in because I wasn't good enough at math.

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