Quotes About Education

I always got good grades; I just didn't go to school much. I didn't like it.

Growing up, I tried to be involved in school a lot, and I had good grades. I was an active kid, and I loved being social.

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

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

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.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

I always got good grades in creative writing from elementary school on up.

I did like history. I was always quite interested and got good grades as well.

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.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

I wrote down the grades I wanted in every class.

When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.

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

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

I had poor eyesight when I was young and despite that, I was making good grades.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

From getting good grades when I was growing up to finishing college to respecting my elders to the discipline that I have - everything can go back to martial arts.

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

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

I tell my AAU kids all the time how important it is to get good grades, go to college, get your degree to make your life easier.

When teachers would say, 'When you all graduate, you won't have anywhere to go' - I'm the type of person playing chess and thinking ahead. I thought that was a good question. Am I going to be winging it? I didn't want to be in that position, so I set myself up to go to college.

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.