Eighth Grade quotes:

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  • Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools. -- Jeremy London
  • I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it. -- Thomas Perry
  • I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York. -- Kristen Wiig
  • I kind of fell into acting, but I have sung and trained since I was in the eighth grade. -- Tia Carrere
  • I played football in eighth grade, and even though I had a passion for it, it turned out I'm no good at playing it. -- Ross Mathews
  • I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had. -- Bellamy Young
  • I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies. -- Kate Christensen
  • At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously. -- Chelsea Clinton
  • When we home schooled my oldest, Jasper, in eighth grade, I saw how empowering it is for a child to learn in their own way. That rebooted my thinking about education. -- Suzy Amis
  • I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it. -- Aaron Paul
  • It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.' -- Alison McGhee
  • I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain. -- Britt Robertson
  • My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor. -- Mitch Pileggi
  • I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop. -- Jill Scott
  • I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade. -- Jerry Reinsdorf
  • When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life... inspire them. -- Shantel VanSanten
  • I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did. -- Taylor Swift
  • In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction. -- Robert Davi
  • I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in. -- Channing Tatum
  • My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four cattle that he gave to me when I graduated from grammar school, from the eighth grade. And those cows multiplied, and he kept track of them for years for me. And that was my herd. -- Dave Brubeck
  • I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. -- Jason Wiles
  • I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.' -- James McGreevey
  • I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films. -- Seth Shostak
  • I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking, 'This is pretty awesome - is this really a job you can have?' This led me toward a career as an academic, although it took me until college to realise that economics was the right field. -- Emily Oster
  • Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this program called CJSF, California Junior Scholarship Foundation. We were involved in soup kitchens and toy drives, and your school can set up something like that. If your school doesn't have a program like that, set one up. -- Lindsey Shaw
  • My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it. -- Mike Rowe
  • In seventh and eighth grade, grammar and vocabulary were not my favorite subjects. -- Aaron Lazar
  • My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education. -- Gordon Bell
  • I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. -- Christine Lavin
  • If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic. -- Heather Brewer
  • We broke up in eighth grade when Tara-Mae Forrester offered to let me touch her boobs. And I did. -- Emma Chase
  • I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires. -- Holly Black
  • My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since. -- Rich Sommer
  • I grew up in Del Mar, Calif., north of San Diego. I got my first job the summer after eighth grade at a small Internet service provider. -- David Ulevitch
  • We buy them (books) as our budget allows. But eighth grade has four trade books (individual-title books), and you have time to do more than that during the school year. -- Bill Vaughan
  • Don't go to eighth grade...don't talk about something old...don't bring up old memories that have nothing to do with who we are now. THIS is all that matters! TODAY. -- Brad Meltzer
  • our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry. -- Merrill Markoe
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  • I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions. -- Matt McGorry
  • I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
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