Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raven-Symone

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Patricia Polacco

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

We were hoping at one point to sell the (old) elementary school and use that money, but that's a contentious issue now.

We have a form they use. It's a student application, and they have to tell us why they want to be a part of the mentoring program, and then why they think they're qualified to mentor elementary students.

Peter Thiel

A conventional truth can be important - it's essential to learn elementary mathematics, for example - but it won't give you an edge. It's not a secret.

We need three more elementary schools, two more intermediates and another high school. We never have enough schools.

Julie Brown

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.

Dick Bennett

We're all 100 percent for keeping the elementary schools in their communities opposed to making a warehouse for the kids, so to speak.

We have to push this (test scores) up so it has the same increase as middle schools and elementary schools.

Jennifer Berry

I love children, being a future elementary school teacher.

When I was in elementary school I always looked up to high school students.

Tiffani Thiessen

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

Josie Loren

I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school.

Aimee Bender

I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because when you're being a squeaky wheel, you're also really letting people know who you are.

Grazia Deledda

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.

I got into writing in college... well, in elementary school. But in college, I started writing seriously and had a professor who read my writing and gave me permission to pursue that as a real effort and time-consuming effort.

The day they tell me I can't hug them (my students), I'll quit. As an elementary teacher, my kids know that when they need a hug, there's one there for them. . . . (But) were I a teacher in a junior high or high school, I would not be hugging the kids.

When they extended their zone, the floor shrunk. It was like playing on an elementary school floor for us.

My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school.

Megan Smith

I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.

Raven Goodwin

I went to elementary like any other kid, but I was just always a little different. I had that sparkle, and everyone told my mom, 'She needs to be on TV, acting.'

I am ready for it. A month or so ago I watched my old elementary school (Peace River come down).

We met last year and talked about the state requirements (on elementary and middle schools), and we all felt that it was a matter of time before High schools were involved in that.

I think (the center) will be very interesting for elementary school kids, especially.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

Lunch (at the two elementary schools) was a little longer than normal, but it will be until they get used to it. But they were hanging in there,

Bret Bielema

Obviously that is the most elementary thing that we've got to make sure we can take for granted on every snap.

Todrick Hall

I was introduced to theater by a teacher that found me when I was in elementary school. She tested me for the Gifted and Talented program, started taking me to see the 'Nutcracker Ballet.' I got involved.

Howard Rheingold

There is an elementary level of trust that is necessary for community. You have to be able to trust that your neighbors aren't going to look into your mailbox.

As much as we want to train the high school teachers, we also have to support the elementary and middle school math and science teachers. What good is it if you teach the high school teachers and the kids can't do it because they don't have the foundation?

All our new teachers are pretty evenly distributed between elementary and secondary schools.

It's possible to do it in other ways. Japanese elementary schools are not exactly the same as the Singapore, and they're done carefully.

Jeff Baker

I'm not saying we don't need a high school. I know we do. I just think our priorities need to be with the elementary and middle school.