Quotes About Eighth Graders

#1. Teaching history to eighth graders is like being a tour guide for people who hate their vacation.

Chuck Klosterman

#2. Less than one-third of eighth-graders can identify the historical purpose of the Declaration of Independence - and it's right there in the name.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#3. So are all the kids on the East Coast repeating school next year? Get ready to see a lot of hairy eighth graders. Storm brain drain.

Olivia Wilde

#4. Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take 'no' for an answer.

Lauren Conrad

#5. I say you must not win an unjust case by oaths.

Aeschylus

#6. I must react selectively, contrarily, arbitrarily, perversely, and always with intensity directly from the subject.

Keith Crown

#7. There is a difference between dining and eating. Dining is an art. When you eat to get most out of your meal, to please the palate, just as well as to satiate the appetite, that,my friend, is dining.

Yuan Mei

#8. Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

Lance Armstrong

#9. I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.

Edward VII

#10. I went and I started teaching computers to young kids, to fifth graders at first, later to sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth graders. I also started teaching teachers. And that was back in the days when we'd wire up the labs ourselves and crimp on the Ethernet connectors and then we would ...

Steve Wozniak

#11. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. Governments need to be authorized to provide 'open bank assistance.' The convolutions of Dodd-Frank aimed at 'avoiding' this tactic are ludicrous and will prove to be extremely costly to the system.

Paul Singer

#13. I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.

A.S. Byatt

#14. I'm just a girl who loves mascara.

Emilia Clarke

#15. Insofar as we have freedoms, it's not because some great wise Founding Fathers granted them to us. It's because people like us insisted on exercising those freedoms - by doing exactly what we're doing here - before anyone was willing to acknowledge that they had them.

David Graeber

#16. Jesus, may there be less of me and my junk and more of You and Your kingdom." I will reduce, so He can increase.

Jen Hatmaker

#17. When your own romantic life is falling apart, everyone else's looks fabulous.

James Patterson