Fourth Graders Quotes

#1. Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.

Susan Orlean

#2. I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

Beverly Cleary

#3. As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.

Christopher Moore

#4. Like most people, I was not able to start selling my stories right away. So I had many other jobs along the way to becoming a writer, including toy maker, gravedigger, cookware salesman, and assembly line worker. Eventually, I became an elementary teacher and worked with second and fourth graders.

Bruce Coville

#5. I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.

Beverly Cleary

#6. If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

Stephen Sondheim

#7. A twinge of conscience is a glimpse of God.

Peter Ustinov

#8. Love is the innermost energy, innermost fire which wants to come out always and spread all over.

Debasish Mridha

#9. See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

Jean Paul

#10. We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

Zig Ziglar

#11. It's either food or blood, Ethan.And given thats it's just me and you in this car right now, food would be considerably less complicated, don't you think?

Chloe Neill

#12. 'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

Alan Furst

#13. The only true wisdom is in knowing that with love you can win the world.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.

Jerry Seinfeld

#15. Start using your wings; they need some exercise.

Paulo Coelho

#16. This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation.

Gautama Buddha

#17. Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

Henry Ward Beecher