9th Grader Quotes

#1. As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

Bo Jackson

#2. Didn't care if I wasn't paid for working after school for seven months teaching a 9th grader to read, but when he finally could, priceless! The best times in my life were when I went way beyond my paygrade to service students in need.

Ace Antonio Hall

#3. Columbus Day is still a federal holiday despite Columbus never having set foot on any territory ever claimed by the United States.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#4. If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.

John Podesta

#5. I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.

David Bowie

#6. Was Vianne really supposed to let Sophie starve to prove her loyalty to France?

Kristin Hannah

#7. When the world started ending, everybody became a convert and wanted nothing more than to spout the virtues of whatever apocalyptic religion they had latched onto. I wasn't sure who, if any, of them were right, but my best bet for avoiding hell was avoiding death.

Amanda Hocking

#8. The desire to collect information on customers is not new for Target or any other large retailer, of course. For decades, Target has collected vast amounts of data on every person who regularly walks into one of its stores.

Charles Duhigg

#9. You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat, and not be able to pay its bills, either to our soldiers who are fighting or to Social Security recipients.

Claire McCaskill

#10. Never to want for anything, or work for anything, or show the tiniest grain of self-discipline in a whole life must give a man a strange outlook on the world,

Joe Abercrombie

#11. To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Honore De Balzac