First Grader Quotes

#1. It changed my life," the first-grader said of the iPad. "I'm reading everything on the street." To prove his point, he read all the words on a pizza box he cradled on his lap.

Anonymous

#2. Life begins at six
at least in the minds of six-year-olds ... In kindergarten you are the baby. In first grade you put down the baby ... Every first grader knows in some osmotic way that this is real life ... First grade is the first step on the way to a place in the grown-up world.

Stella Chess

#3. such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,

Masha Gessen

#4. Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer - life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.

Philip Roth

#5. Make me proud my little first-grader" he said, fist pumping robbie "and, remember rule number one above all"
"Right" he replies "don't talk politics

Jenny B. Jones

#6. I was a strange, dark little dude. I fell in love with horror movies, at a very early age. Somehow, as a first grader, I was able to convince my parents to let me go see stuff like 'An American Werewolf in London' in theaters, so I was headed in that direction anyway.

James Roday

#7. The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.

Jeff Greenfield

#8. I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

Justin Cronin

#9. One who has great faith has great power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal

Jeffrey Gitomer

#11. Life with books makes my world complete.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#13. I had my two front teeth knocked out by a sixth grader in first grade.

Chad Michael Murray

#14. Just remember, you are not alone, in fact you are in a very common place with millions of others. We need to help each other and keep striving to reach our goals.

Mike Moreno

#15. It's the scariest thing in the world, going to acting class, because first of all, there's a lot of pressure. I just go back to being that fourth grader who couldn't, like, sit still in her seat.

Eva Mendes

#16. What we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

Nick Cave

#17. I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while.

Joseph Wambaugh

#18. Say it. Say your mine, Maddie. You own my heart now, baby. I gotta have yours too.

K. Langston