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Elementary School Quotes

The drone in my ear, it's like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us hunched over on ourselves, facing the basement walls, heads tucked into our chests. Beth and me wedged tight, jeaned legs pressed against each other. The sounds of our own breathing. Before we all stopped believing a tornado, or anything, could touch us, ever
- Megan Abbott

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
- Chris Van Allsburg

The same boys who got detention in elementary school for beating the crap out of people are now rewarded for it. They call it football.
- Laurie Halse Anderson

The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed.
- William Bennett

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.
- Donna Brazile

I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny.
- Julie Brown

Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.
- Rick Riordan

The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
- Gilbert K Chesterton

People think it must be wonderful being in movies or on television, but it can be very tough on a child. I had two friends in elementary school. That was it. There was a clique of girls that were brutal to me. They pulled some very mean stuff. My two friends got me through it. Without them, I would have been all alone.
- Angela Cartwright

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?
- Stephen King

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'
- Ornette Coleman

Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
- Billy Crystal

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.
- Mike Davidson

After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes to write about, and some of them turned out so well that he told me to publish them in a newspaper.
- Grazia Deledda

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
- John Doolittle

Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me.
- Michael Clarke Duncan

One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.
- Warren Farrell

I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city.
- Bob Filner

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.
- Jim Fowler

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials.
- Thomas Frank

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
- Carl Sagan

Christy: "My grandma made this. I've had it since elementary school."
Todd: "I never knew that."
Christy: "I never knew you left your towel on the floor."
Todd: "Uh-oh. Is this one of those issues they talked about in our premarital counseling? Should I hang up towels so you feel more loved?
- Robin Jones Gunn

I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood.
- Sherman Hemsley

I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show.
- Sherman Hemsley

I remember in elementary school, Mother used to write my name on every single pair of my underwear. I guess she did that so none of my classmates would mistake my lunch for theirs.
- Jarod Kintz

My elementary school principal, Prince Apple, had no principles. I know, because he offered to give me candy once, in exchange for sexual services. As you can imagine I said, "No!" Come on, man, you know I only accept cash.
- Jarod Kintz

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'
- Kristin Kreuk

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
- Christa Mcauliffe

...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. She pushed me away from her just as she'd pushed my elder siblings away when we lived in New York, literally shoving them out the front door when they left for college.
- James Mcbride

I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
- Jason Mewes

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
- Andrea Mitchell

I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
- Douglass North

I was an elementary school teacher.
- Luciano Pavarotti

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
- Martha Reeves

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.
- Kevin Richardson

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
- Sally Ride

[Reverend James] Dobson says that the [Spongebob Squarepants] video would be watched by millions of elementary school students and includes a reference to being 'tolerant of differences.' The nerve! Who does Spongebob think he is? Jesus Christ? Tolerance will not be, uh, tolerated. Oh, and tolerance is quite possibly closesly connected to gay-ance.
- Celia Rivenbark

The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
- Michelle Rodriguez

I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school.
- Fritz Sauckel

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.
- Mike Wallace

It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
- Dan Simmons

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.
- Mira Sorvino

I discover poetry when I was in elementary school and I was so fascinated by it. Because I realised if you get the right amount of syllables and the right amount of words, in the right rhyme scheme and you put it all together. You make words just bounce of a page.
- Taylor Swift

It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani.
- Tiffani Amber Thiessen

Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school.
- Elizabeth Warren

We ran into lots of old friends. Friends from elementary school, junior high school, high school. Everyone had matured in their own way, and even as we stood face to face with them they seemed like people from dreams, sudden glimpses through the fences of our tangled memories. We smiled and waved, exchanged a few words, and then walked on in our separate directions.
- Banana Yoshimoto

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.
- Philip Zimbardo

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