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  • All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten. -- Robert Fulghum
  • If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years. -- Janet Napolitano
  • From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. -- Dick Cheney
  • I was actually supposed to be a basketball player, not an actress. My parents had me playing basketball on competitive teams when I was in kindergarten. Even though my heart belongs to the arts, I'm a tomboy at heart, too. -- Zendaya
  • I've always traveled with a picture of my daughter from 1989, her kindergarten school picture, that has 'I love you, Daddy' written on it. She's always made fun of me because I never changed that picture out. It's like my resistance to her getting older. It was the first thing she'd ever written to me and it means the world to me. -- Kiefer Sutherland
  • The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station. -- Maria Semple
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor. He's got a great slogan - 'Vote for me, or I'll make 'Kindergarten Cop II -- Craig Kilborn
  • Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten. -- Bob Ehrlich
  • I was such a huge Bruce Willis fan because of all the Die Hards and Arnold Schwarzenegger was like 'the guy.' Kindergarten Cop was filmed in my home state and I was like, "He's awesome! Now he gets his hair cut next to me, it's fantastic. " -- Katee Sackhoff
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  • Nature was my kindergarten. -- William Christopher Handy
  • Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother? -- Donald E. Westlake
  • I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother. -- Zhang Ziyi
  • In kindergarten, you can learn how to be a citizen of the world. -- Jill Lepore
  • Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten. -- Wendy Kaminer
  • The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible. -- Robert Fulghum
  • I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves. -- Megan Smith
  • The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. -- Orison Swett Marden
  • My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten. -- Amy Tan
  • School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. -- Dan Savage
  • I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated. -- Louis Zamperini
  • Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred. -- Marek Edelman
  • I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that. -- Tina Fey
  • Sex education, including its spiritual aspects, should be part of a broad health and moral education from kindergarten through grade twelve, ideally carried out harmoniously by parents and teachers. -- Benjamin Spock
  • Once I accomplish one thing and I'm satisfied, I try something else. I may be 50 and doing something totally outside of music and acting. Maybe I'll become a kindergarten teacher. -- Kid Cudi
  • I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on. -- Hannibal Buress
  • Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life. -- Shane Koyczan
  • I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. -- Brenda Ueland
  • Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class. -- C. Everett Koop
  • Each email contains an unsubscribe link. We will NEVER sell, rent, loan, or abuse your email address in ANY way. I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. -- Christine Lavin
  • Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material. -- Julian Assange
  • I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years' time. -- Zoltan Kodaly
  • I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves. -- Ellen DeGeneres
  • Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities. -- Jacob M. Appel
  • In kindergarten I had to draw a picture of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I drew a rapper. I didn't really know what a rapper was or what they did - I just wanted to do it. -- B.o.B
  • Live your life. Do the dishes. Do the laundry. Take your kids to kindergarten. Raise your children and your grandchildren. Take care of the community in which you live. Make all of that your path, and follow your path with heart. -- Dipa Ma
  • All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. -- Robert Fulghum
  • Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values. -- Dalai Lama
  • If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him. -- C. Everett Koop
  • I don't have any siblings, but I have best friends that I have known since kindergarten that I'm protective of. If they call me and tell me someone was mean to them at school - I want to go to school and be mean to that person and try to stand up for them. -- Miranda Cosgrove
  • Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together. -- Charles J. Shields
  • I knew more about produce from the sea than any of my schoolmates, and my reports in school, from kindergarten on, amused and shocked my classmates and teachers. I told them how we ate with chopsticks, had rice and seaweed for breakfast, raw fish, octopus, and sea urchin eggs for supper, and cakes made from sharks. -- Eugenie Clark
  • I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy. -- Barack Obama
  • I did not even go to kindergarten; I just started first grade when I was five and started reading right away. I don't know how it all worked, but I had a lot of adults and older siblings around me. So, I guess I was probably introduced to what one would be introduced to at that time in kindergarten. -- Joan Ganz Cooney
  • As you know macrobiotics has helped thousands of sick people; but this is kindergarten. The purpose of macrobiotics is to become free to change all of this world into what we want - unhappiness to happiness, sickness to health, war to peace, misery to love. When you attain this freedom you become the children of the Kingdom of Heaven. -- Michio Kushi
  • One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.' -- Chance The Rapper
  • My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that. -- Alison Sweeney
  • People who are not leaders automatically gravitate toward lines--limitations set by others. Many people are taught this in kindergarten when they are instructed to stay within the lines while coloring. But leaders are more creative than that. They look for options and opportunities. They try to take things in a new direction, or beyond the limit. Progress and innovation are made by people who think without lines. -- John C. Maxwell
  • God has pity on kindergarten children -- Yehuda Amichai
  • Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten. -- Robert Fulghum
  • I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten. -- J. J. Abrams
  • I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother. -- Zhang Ziyi
  • Caro: "Bite me."Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten. -- Kristin Hannah
  • We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten. -- Kurt Vonnegut
  • My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten. -- Elizabeth Olsen
  • I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. -- Susie Bright
  • I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten. -- Jacquelyn Jablonski
  • Boredom is the specter that haunts children from kindergarten to graduation on every continent. -- Amanda Ripley
  • Surfboards were everywhere. When I got my first new board, I was probably in kindergarten. -- Brandon Cruz
  • We are just in the kindergarten of uncovering things; there is no downcurve in science. -- Charles Kettering
  • When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week. -- Tom Rath
  • I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class. -- Christine Lavin
  • I went through seventh grade in private school. I went to private school from kindergarten to seventh grade. -- Stacie Orrico
  • My first crush was this kid in kindergarten who told me he had tigers in his attic as well. -- Kendall Jenner
  • I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teacher. -- Karlie Kloss
  • My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to study. -- Ada Yonath
  • I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated. -- Spike Lee
  • I was born and raised in California and benefited from California's excellent public schools, from kindergarten through medical school. -- Ami Bera
  • All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ... -- Robert Fulghum
  • If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade. -- Peter McWilliams
  • I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day. -- Vera Farmiga
  • My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12. -- Louie Anderson
  • The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
  • By the time I got to kindergarten, I was surprised to find out I was the only kid with a turkey vulture. -- Jean Craighead George
  • The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. I'm proud to say I was the first to stop running. -- Jonathan Keltz
  • The girls in kindergarten would chase us boys around trying to kiss us. Im proud to say I was the first to stop running. -- Jonathan Keltz
  • Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks! -- Tennessee Williams
  • I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love. -- Kristan Higgins
  • [Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms. -- Marva Collins
  • 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 up late last night yapping about the elections on CNN and up early this morning doing the same thing in my daughter's kindergarten class. -- Tucker Carlson
  • One has to consider what effect it would have on one to have to accept the fact that God was not the friendly guardian of kindergarten! -- Marie Louise Von Franz
  • In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales. -- Francis Ford Coppola
  • From kindergarten to college, certain teachers engaged my curiosity and motivated me to learn. While I was not the best student, their efforts left a lasting impact. -- George Lucas
  • But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten programs in Indiana or school lunch funds out of the federal government. -- Birch Bayh
  • You learn to read in kindergarten or first grade, and suddenly there's this other world that isn't your family or your school or your friends. It's something else. -- Lynne Tillman
  • When 'Desperate Housewives' ends, I think my girls will be about the kindergarten age. I will be so happy to be there for them through that huge transition. -- Marcia Cross
  • I want to clear up a few myths about myself. People have written that I was a kindergarten teacher and a former Miss Texas, and neither is true. -- Krista Allen
  • Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn. -- Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • I still do have the little lunch bag that my mother made out of a towel and embroidered with my name on it for when I went to kindergarten. -- Maira Kalman
  • When I was in kindergarten, it took me like three months to learn how to spell my own name. But that's also not saying much considering I'm a terrible speller. -- Matt Czuchry
  • I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade. -- Jonathan Kozol
  • We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society. -- Bryan Cranston
  • People lived in the same apartments for years. You'd meet a group of kids in kindergarten, and you'd still be with them in high school. No one ever left the neighborhood. -- Fran Drescher
  • Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore. -- Lauren Groff
  • When I was a little kid we moved to Tulsa, then to St. Louis and, by the time I was in kindergarten, we lived in Springfield, Missouri. There I basically grew up. -- Brad Pitt
  • Sending a book out into the world is a lot like sending your child to the first day of kindergarten. You hope the other kids play nice and that she makes friends. -- Mitchell Zuckoff
  • The notion of children being "kindergarten ready" is a bizarre oxymoron. It's like saying you have to know how to play the piano before you can learn how to play the piano. -- Peter Campbell
  • Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level. -- Ann Coulter
  • What exactly did we learn in kindergarten? Nothing we wouldn't have learned if we;d stayed home. Okay, we learned that sometimes, by the time you get to the bathroom, it's too late. -- Jessica Zafra
  • If you make believe that ten guys in pin-striped suits are back in a kindergarten class playing with building blocks, you'll get a rough picture of what life in a corporation is like. -- Lee Iacocca
  • I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!' -- Heather Morris
  • When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold. -- Kendall Jenner
  • Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there. -- Dan Hill
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