Quotes About Second Graders

#1. Blitzen and Hearthstone collapsed at the bow. They started arguing with each other about which of them had taken the stupider risks, but they were so tired the debate deteriorated into a half-hearted poking contest, like a couple of second-graders.

Rick Riordan

#2. Second graders learn to read: that's a perfect time to make them code.

Megan Smith

#3. Very effective way to do this with a bunch of second graders, is take a picture of The Lion King for instance, and a teacher might say, 'Do you know that the music for this movie was written by a gay man?' The message is: I'm better at what I do, because I'm gay.

Michele Bachmann

#4. One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that I found as a child in the Saturday morning library events for preschoolers and first and second graders as I was growing up in Augusta, GA.

Jessye Norman

#5. Chronic deficits drastically reduce government's ability to make those infrastructure investments that business needs to grow and create jobs.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#6. Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book

Blue Balliett

#7. I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

Jeff Kinney

#8. I've come to give you your gift back, Mordeth," Cauthon whispered. "I consider our debt paid in full.

Robert Jordan

#9. Snow's table manners are atrocious - it's like watching a wild dog eat. A wild dog you'd like to slip the tongue.

Rainbow Rowell

#10. The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

Darren Johnson

#11. I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.

Ally Carter

#12. The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

John Wolcot

#13. When you first start singing something after you've written it, it has this sort of sparkle to it. And if you capture that, that's luck.

Jesse Harris

#14. Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are

Margaret Landon

#15. 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