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I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School. -- Jim Fowler
Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school. -- Donna Brazile
Me, I was waiting tables of 13 and married at 19. I graduated from public schools, and taught elementary school. -- Elizabeth Warren
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
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
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
There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now. -- Steven Wright
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
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
I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and then Meadowbrook Middle School. I learned to dance at Meadowbrook Country Club. All those things grounded me in one place and I think most of Fort Worth is just like the area I grew up in. -- Kay Granger
Once an actor told me he went to the Shakespeare School of Acting, and I said, 'I went to the Shakespeare of Acting, too' and he said, 'Oh really?' And I said, 'I went to Shakespeare Elementary School in Chicago.' He didn't take the joke well, he didn't laugh and didn't think it was funny - I thought it was funny. It's all the same to me. -- Michael Clarke Duncan
I was an elementary school teacher. -- Luciano Pavarotti
In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. -- Henny Youngman
I attended the elementary school at Schweinfurt and the secondary school. -- Fritz Sauckel
I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it. -- Jason Mewes
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri -- Dan Simmons
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that. -- Michelle Rodriguez
I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. -- Megan Smith
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising. -- Billy Crystal
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
It's absolutely crucial that every child-serving organization - be it an elementary school, daycare, or community center - provide its children with time and space to play. -- Darell Hammond
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day. -- Ishmael Beah
I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people. -- Martha Reeves
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
I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated. -- Christa McAuliffe
I took a drama class in elementary school, and I just remember having so much fun with it. From there, I just studied, got better as I went along, and continued to grow. -- Sinqua Walls
Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school. -- Philip Zimbardo
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
Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower? -- Stephen King
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes. -- Wendy Kopp
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
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
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
One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive. -- Warren Farrell
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
My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac. -- Umberto Eco
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
Throughout most of my life, I've tried to downplay my Chinese heritage because I wanted so much to be an American. I was the only Asian kid in my elementary school, and I longed to be like everyone else. I insisted on American food; I was embarrassed by my mother's poor English. -- Tess Gerritsen
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
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a more active role in ensuring that what the United States does abroad is not merely in keeping with a foreign policy elite's sense of realpolitik but also with the American public's own sense of American values. -- Mohsin Hamid
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
Elementary school children are very impressionable -- David J. Anderson
I struggled academically throughout elementary school -- Benjamin Carson
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
I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life. -- Steve Wozniak
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
In elementary and high school, I never considered acting as a profession. -- Rashida Jones
It's funny - in elementary school, I went by Amber. I never liked Tiffani. -- Tiffani Thiessen
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school. -- Douglass North
It's great because all of my friends from elementary school are still my closest friends. -- Gia Coppola
It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri. -- Dan Simmons
I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school. -- Kevin Richardson
I started acting when I was, like, five in monologue competitions at this private elementary school. -- Josie Loren
As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school. -- Andrea Mitchell
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school. -- Clara Mamet
I played piano back in my elementary school days and I sang a cappella back in college. -- Masi Oka
When I was in elementary school, the coach of our school (soccer) team personally unearthed my talents. -- Eunhyuk
All names disappear. Children should be taught that in elementary school. But we're afraid to teach them. -- Roberto Bolano
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing. -- Patricia Polacco
I wish airplanes were more like elementary school with someone up front telling everyone to sit down and shut up. -- Alonzo Bodden
I wore bell bottoms in elementary school. Never wore elephant bells. Remember, this was middle Oklahoma in the '70s. -- Garth Brooks
The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions. -- Scott Cohen
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires. -- Christina Aguilera
And for whatever reason I've loved the news since I can remember. I loved it when I was in elementary school. -- Dan Rather
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
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
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
I was born in San Antonio, TX, but moved to Lakewood, CO in elementary school. Then, I moved to Valley Center, CA in high school. -- Katie Leclerc
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 was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5. -- James Frecheville
I remember turning in my first assignment in elementary school using the computer and the teachers were kind of confused that I had printed it. -- Larry Page
In elementary school, in my lunchbox, I used to pack a saxophone. I could have been a chef, a culinary artist, and all that jazz. -- Jarod Kintz
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
I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana. -- James Tobin
My mom dressed me in silk to go to elementary school. In kindergarten, they sent me home because I couldn't do finger painting in my dress. -- Allegra Versace
I was born tall. I was awkward and gangly. Before that, I was a really chubby elementary school kid. I've always been sort of a physical abnormality. -- Timothy Simons
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school. -- Aaron Paul
Going back to the elementary school days, I was always drawing. I entered a Victory poster competition and won the top award that recognized my artistic instincts. -- Paul Smith
I loved it, but had to forget about acting after elementary school because it was the sort of thing you just didn't do in my rough neighborhood. -- Sherman Hemsley
Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza -- Rick Ross
How far back to the elementary school core curriculum do we have to go to get someone on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology caught up? -- Jon Stewart
In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out. -- Russell Wilson
I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all. -- Raven-Symone
When I was in elementary school, I was a big fan of the zip-off pants that could be turned into shorts. The Delia's catalog used to be my bible. -- Hayley Williams
[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of course she loves children and children's literature. -- Jenna Bush
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education. -- Sam Harris
I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher. -- Carlo Rubbia
I was in elementary school in Mississippi, and when Katrina hit, my mom put me in home school. So ever since sixth grade, I've been home schooled, which was interesting. -- Israel Broussard
I think my magical dream land would have all of my friends from high school and elementary school. I'm extremely nostalgic so my closest friends are people from my childhood. -- Tyra Banks
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. -- William Bennett
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower? -- Warren Hutcherson
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop. -- Mira Sorvino
I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending. -- Thom Yorke
I was going to be valedictorian in elementary school, but I got into too many fights, and they made me salutatorian. I was smart back in the day. Now I'm just an idiot. -- Marlon Wayans
I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids. -- Conor Oberst
Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study - are not likely to get much attention. -- Thomas Sowell
I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched. -- Gina Carano
I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em. -- Ariel Pink
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry. -- Gail Carson Levine
I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I participated in the talent shows and the school plays - all of 'em. -- Ariel Pink
I can always remember standing up to the baddest girls in my elementary school. Wherever I went, there was always a mean girl, and that girl would always hate me because I wouldn't bow down. -- Nicki Minaj
There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo. -- Billy Dee Williams

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