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I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. -- Jim Fowler
Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length. -- Karl Ferdinand Braun
Elementary propositions consist of names. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Elementary school children are very impressionable -- David J. Anderson
A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business -- Charlie Munger
Elementary particles are terribly boring, which is one reason why we're so interested in them. -- Steven Weinberg
My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California. -- Deb Caletti
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that. -- Michelle Rodriguez
In Elementary Music The Relation Of Earth To The Sphere of Water is 4 to 3, As There Are In The Earth Four Quarters of Frigidity to Three of Water. -- Robert Fludd
I had been encouraged a lot by my parents and my sixth grade teacher, James Doyle at Main Street Elementary School. He was an early supporter of my writing ability. -- Mike Scully
More often than not, my reference point is not the kids or the grandkids but myself when I was that age. I remember the days at Hartranft Elementary and Stewart Junior High in Norristown. -- Jerry Spinelli
The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom. -- Adam Hamilton
I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny. -- Julie Brown
I think I knew I was funny in Elementary School. I think most funny people realize it when they're young. It tends to come out of stress or trauma - something that makes you want to be funny. -- Julie Brown
Senators say they fear the N.R.A. and the gun lobby. But I think that fear must be nothing compared to the fear the first graders in Sandy Hook Elementary School felt as their lives ended in a hail of bullets. -- Gabrielle Giffords
I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat. -- Dave Barry
Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a philosophical tract, it evinces a fiercely nihilistic, anti-humanistic vision built upon gross generalizations and ridiculously phony logic. It is a deeply repugnant read. -- Michiko Kakutani
When I see a fan coming over, I can't help but make an assumption about what they want to talk about. A middle-aged American woman will head over, and I think, 'Game of Thrones.' Turns out it's 'The Tudors' or 'Elementary' or 'The Hunger Games.' It's always a surprise. -- Natalie Dormer
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. -- Donna Brazile
I majored in elementary education, and I have a passion for kids. -- Allyson Felix
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. -- Albert Schweitzer
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program. -- Sally Ride
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. -- Carl Sagan
Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision. -- John Doolittle
In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
I was on the San Diego school board for 4 years, where I watched children successfully matriculate into elementary schools from Head Start programs from all around our city. -- Bob Filner
When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.' -- Kristin Kreuk
I think also of my colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands, and feel that in some measure I am here as a representative of our small, informal, international fraternity. -- Murray Gell-Mann
We have a responsibility to ensure that every individual has the opportunity to receive a high-quality education, from prekindergarten to elementary and secondary, to special education, to technical and higher education and beyond. -- Jim Jeffords
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them. -- T. D. Jakes
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction. -- Charles Babbage
There has been so much recent talk of progress in the areas of curriculum innovation and textbook revision that few people outside the field of teaching understand how bad most of our elementary school materials still are. -- Jonathan Kozol
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. -- Ernest Mandel
If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will. -- Stockwell Day
Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!' -- Ornette Coleman
Like so many other kids with special needs, I have been bullied. Kids in elementary school made me eat sand, and those same boys would walk behind me, teasing me. Finally I had enough, and I told them to grow up. -- Lauren Potter
I was in a play in elementary school and had to jump up and run away. I was nervous and tripped and fell down and everyone laughed. Their laughter made me relax, so I pretended it was part of the show. -- Sherman Hemsley
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on. -- Christine Quinn
You must live life in its very elementary forms. The Mexicans have a very nice word for it: pura vida. It doesn't mean just purity of life, but the raw, stark-naked quality of life. And that's what makes young people more into a filmmaker than academia. -- Werner Herzog
I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff. -- Zosia Mamet
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet. -- Alan Dershowitz
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds. -- Jonathan Tucker
It's elementary, my dear Winifred. -- Miss Mae
I was an elementary school teacher. -- Luciano Pavarotti
I struggled academically throughout elementary school -- Benjamin Carson
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. -- Susan Sontag
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. -- Eric Temple Bell
If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles. -- John Horton Conway
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. -- Allegra Versace
John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school. -- Eric Close
In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. -- Henny Youngman
I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life. -- Steve Wozniak
I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school. -- Fritz Sauckel
The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order . -- Albert Camus
In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. -- Rashida Jones
What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult? -- Ian Mcewan
I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it. -- Jason Mewes
Back when I was in elementary school, I didnt have many friends. -- Israel Broussard
Back when I was in elementary school, I didn't have many friends. -- Israel Broussard
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. -- Barbara Kingsolver
It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani. -- Tiffani Thiessen
I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education. -- Angel Cabrera
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. -- Douglass North
I always use my clients' products. This is not toady-ism, but elementary good manners. -- David Ogilvy
It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand. -- Anthony Horowitz
It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends. -- Gia Coppola
I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. -- Kevin Richardson
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. -- Dan Simmons
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. -- Josie Loren
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri -- Dan Simmons
All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary -- C. S. Lewis
All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them. -- Roberto Bolano
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment. -- Walther Bothe
When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents. -- Eunhyuk
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school. -- Clara Mamet
As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school. -- Andrea Mitchell
I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college. -- Masi Oka
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. -- Patricia Polacco
I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. -- Megan Smith
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately -- George Bernard Shaw
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. -- Nelson Mandela
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. -- Hugo Black
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. -- Elizabeth Warren
Art is a discovery and development of elementary principles of nature into beautiful forms suitable for human use. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other. -- Camille Flammarion
I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up. -- Alonzo Bodden
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires. -- Christina Aguilera
I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s. -- Garth Brooks
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising. -- Billy Crystal
The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions. -- Scott Cohen
The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff. -- Elon Musk
And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school. -- Dan Rather
When everyone feels that risks are at their minimum, over-confidence can take over and elementary precautions start to get watered down. -- Ian Macfarlane
We are living through an epochal shift. If we aren't careful, the elementary foundations of our pluralistic democracy will be threatened. -- Martin Schulz
Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. -- Josemaria Escriva
It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked. -- Ramesh S Balsekar
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible. -- Abdus Salam
I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living. -- Thom Yorke
The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells. -- Theodor Schwann
My whole life, I heard, 'Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg.' It's all I heard throughout elementary school. -- Robin Lord Taylor
I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college. -- Masi Oka
Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race. -- Ernst Mach
... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts. -- G. H. Hardy
That was the most offensive thing I've ever seen in 20 years of teaching - and that includes an elementary school production of hair. -- Jane Lynch
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -- W. H. Murray
To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state. -- Walter Lippmann
Most American elementary schools and high schools, and nearly all colleges and universities, teach everything that is significant from a liberal/Left perspective. -- Dennis Prager
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable. -- Graham Greene
We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries. -- Werner Heisenberg
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. -- Robert Morgan
An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things. -- Henry Stapp
(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place' invented by men. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered. -- Joel Salatin
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions. -- Carl Ludwig
No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination. -- Thomas Jefferson
I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete. -- Tony Dungy
I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters. -- Katie Cassidy

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