Quotes & Sayings About 8th Grade

I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league! — Lisa Leslie

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer ... and they made it. — Bob Beauprez

I was in about in the 8th grade when I started recording R&B, so much of what was on was the Motown sound, and The Beatles had pretty much come over and taken America by storm. — Betty Wright

I really haven't paid attention to Madonna since about like 7th or 8th grade when she used to be popular — Mariah Carey

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made. — Bill Cosby

I get letters from classes all the time. Say it's assigned in someone's 8th grade class, and the teacher asks everyone to write a letter to me about their impressions and what they learned. So, it's incredibly gratifying to hear. — Michael Pollan

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family. — Muhammad Yunus

When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me. — Lil B

Oh, on the contrary, I'm plenty real, and I can prove it."
"Prove it then. I'll be waiting. — Nely Cab

Glenn Hammond Curtiss was a bicycle enthusiast before he started building motorcycles. Although he only attended grammar school to the 8th grade, his interests motivated him to move on to greater things. In 1904, as a self-taught engineer, he began to manufacture engines for airships. During this time, Curtiss became known for having won a number of international air races and for making the first long-distance flight in the United States. On September 30, 1907, Curtiss was invited to join a non-profit pioneering research program named the "Aerial Experimental Association," founded under the leadership of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, to develop flying machines. The organization was established having a fixed time period, which ended in March of 1909. During this time, the members produced several different aircraft in a cooperative, rather than a competitive, spirit. — Hank Bracker

I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence. — Jaycee Dugard

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains. — Two Chainz

I grew really fast. It's true I went from 5'6" to 6'1" in six months in 8th grade. By the end of 8th grade, I was 6'1". Everyone was freaking out. — Dot Jones

That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget. — Colum McCann

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust. — Clark Blaise

I was a bad dater, and up until 8th grade I went to an all boy's school. So, by the time I hit high school I was a bit freaked out by women in general. — Steve Carell

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which ... I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level. — Bill Hicks

Why can't we repeat 8th grace five times and call that a high school education? — Audrey Regan

Henry shrugged. "I've kissed plenty of girls."
"I'm not talking about your mom,dork. — Heather Brewer

I hate to lose. When I was a kid, I used to cry every time I lost a game, up until, like, the 8th grade. I used to go ballistic. — Chris Bosh

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. — Dreezy

I was born in L.A. County Hospital, but I grew up in Pasadena. I married my 8th grade sweetheart, Marcia. — Stephen J. Cannell

Effectiveness in teaching the Bible is purchased at the price of much study, some of it lonely, all of it tiring. — D. A. Carson

It's better for us to be in six states and have all of our stores concentrated than spread out over half the United States. We — Howard Stoeckel

8th-grade test scores. Kids in the richest quarter with low test scores are as likely to make it through college as kids in the poorest quarter with high scores (see chart). — Anonymous

You know, sometimes I'll go to an 8th-grade graduation and there's all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I think to myself, it's just 8th grade ... An 8th-grade education doesn't cut it today. Let's give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library! — Barack Obama

I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.' — Lev Grossman

My job as a designer is to make a woman feel her very best — Oscar De La Renta

I guess it's true what they say: it's really hard to spot someone dressed in meat, slinking along a meat wall. - Sadia: The 8th Circle of Heck — Dale E. Basye

She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out — Saira Viola

I was born in Sinaloa, Mexico, along with two of my siblings. The rest were born here in the United States. I didn't know we were illegal until I was in the 8th grade. We would call other kids wetbacks, but we were the real wetbacks! — Felipe Esparza

Something terrible happened in Salem in 1692 . . . but it isn't what you think! — Suzy Witten

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two. — Jean De La Bruyere

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read. — Wallace D. Wattles

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years. — Bill Maris

I'm not from a political family and didn't grow up dreaming of being George Washington. I started working in 8th grade and have held every odd job possible - working in a gravel pit, weighing big wheelers, ticket sales, data base management - but I knew if I worked hard and got experience, I could apply that experience to my next endeavor. — Aaron Schock

I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist. — Yukmouth

I have been training since 8th grade, but it has to do with listening, more than practice. — Jill Scott

I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs. — Eddie McClintock

I'm a huge fan of Billy Idol. I spiked my hair every day like him in 7th and 8th grade. — Dierks Bentley

Being In love with Vampires is never out of fashion (The Angel Vampire: A New Race is Born) — Vianka Van Bokkem

Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck. — L. Ron Hubbard