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MY TEACHER My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember ca...
IKE BARINHOLTZ His third-grade teacher said he knew every rock and rill in the Rockies. And he said, 'Yeah, and I k...
RALPH EDWARDS My third-grade teacher hung my dinosaur paintings behind her desk and it was all over from there. I'...
DAN GERDEMAN My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
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In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.
KENDALL JENNER I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of t...
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My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who...
ED EMBERLEY I see a lot of them from third grade right through sixth grade. What I like most is seeing them retu...
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made m...
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KAITLIN BESSEMER I ref for the younger kids on Saturdays. I had third grade last week and I have fifth grade this wee...
CRAIG HEIMAN I had a crush on my fourth-grade teacher, but nothing came of it because of the age difference. I wa...
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It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house t...
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I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade cl...
STEVE CARELL I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.
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JIM GENOVESE I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me...
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My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third gr...
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Crosses?"
"Definitely"
"Why?"
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PHILIP SCHULTZ How would you know? When I played, you were in your third year of eighth grade.
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I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing mysel...
SCOTT HAMILTON![]()
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache...
AJAY NAIDU Just about every single person in the third grade helped complete the map in some way.
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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising the...
IDINA MENZEL![]()
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, VLOGBROTHERS, MY NAME IS JOHN GREEN. AND I AM A NERD., 10-30-07 I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
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My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh...
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In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teache...
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I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it was...
GERALDINE BROOKS Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two arti...
DANA PERINO![]()
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistical...
STEVEN WRIGHT My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
LAVERNE COX![]()
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actuall...
PETER C. DOHERTY![]()
Your first teacher is your mother; the second is people; the third is life; and the fourth is God.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO![]()
In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow ...
GIGI HADID I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have nev...
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ARIEL LEVY In my opinion, she is the best third baseman I've seen.
KEN RHODEN I was unsure and nervous at first about moving from the teacher-to-student relationship I had with M...
AMY GREEN She got a really good grade.
JENNIE RYLEE She is learning to be a good teacher. She is pushing me. Being a good teacher is about give and take...
KOSTYA TSZYU Those two have been playing together since third grade. They are a lethal one-two punch. They set ea...
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In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's whe...
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AMY FROESS I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left t...
DAVID WALTON One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by ...
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I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau...
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My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazin...
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I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me.
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Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but...
JOHN SULSTON I have two older brothers, the general and David, who is a teacher. My sister, Sarah, also is a teac...
BEN SHELTON She is not only a teacher to us, she is a true friend. I hope to have her for the rest of my high sc...
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In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one b...
TAYLOR MALI![]()
A heavy snowstorm closed the schools in one town. When the children returned to school a few days l...
UNKNOWN I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
ZIYI ZHANG![]()
I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one...
WOLE SOYINKA I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sud...
KING BACH![]()
If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, the...
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.
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CONNIE WHITE When he was in third grade, even the average person could tell he wasn't some guy just shot-putting ...
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On my first day of Jr. High I was in Geography class, and the teacher asked us if anybody knew the n...
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When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and...
JEFF DUNHAM My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
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LAURA BENANTI
CAROLINE LEAVITT teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li...
MY TEACHER My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember ca...
IKE BARINHOLTZ His third-grade teacher said he knew every rock and rill in the Rockies. And he said, 'Yeah, and I k...
RALPH EDWARDS My third-grade teacher hung my dinosaur paintings behind her desk and it was all over from there. I'...
DAN GERDEMAN My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.'
SEBASTIAN ARCELUS
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. KENDALL JENNER I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of t...
BELLAMY YOUNG Whether you're an obstetrician or a third-grade teacher or a real estate agent, you know when yo...
SUSAN ISAACS I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. ...
ALAN RITCHSON
My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenil... MILES TELLER
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE I think my grandmother Woodrell was most responsible for my becoming a writer. She wasn't quite ...
DANIEL WOODRELL The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told ...
FRANCES FARMER My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I hav...
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who... ED EMBERLEY I see a lot of them from third grade right through sixth grade. What I like most is seeing them retu...
LINDA CARPENTER I was looking around for study guides for college algebra. As a first-grade teacher, I don't use col...
KAREN CHRISTENSEN When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made m... HUSTON SMITH In fifth grade, my art teacher had our entire grade draw pictures of insects. She submitted all of t...
KAITLIN BESSEMER I ref for the younger kids on Saturdays. I had third grade last week and I have fifth grade this wee...
CRAIG HEIMAN I had a crush on my fourth-grade teacher, but nothing came of it because of the age difference. I wa...
BILL CULLEN
It wasn't until sixth grade, at P.S. 168, when my teacher took us on a field trip to her house t... JAY-Z
I was sort of traumatized by girls in the third grade. Because there was a girl in my third grade cl... STEVE CARELL I did the 'Wizard of Oz' in third grade, and I was a witch.
CRISTELA ALONZO Some people have third world problems, some have first world problems, while other's have third grad...
JIM GENOVESE I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me...
LAVERNE COX
My mother was a great storyteller and a great historian in her own way. She only made it to third gr... JUAN FELIPE HERRERA We have two schools with high numbers of disadvantages students. Now, the state mandates a 22-to-1 s...
BILLY THOMPSON I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in lif...
ALAN RITCHSON
Crosses?""Definitely"
"Why?"
"Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?"<...
RACHEL CAINE Repeating third grade at a new school, after having been asked to leave my old one for hitting kids ...
PHILIP SCHULTZ How would you know? When I played, you were in your third year of eighth grade.
BRIAN HAYWARD I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I wa...
LIZZY CAPLAN
My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's ... ICE T Usually they're in the ballpark. Seldom do you have a third-round grade and the guy is picked in the...
GIL BRANDT
I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing mysel... SCOTT HAMILTON
My first acting job happened by accident when I was really young. I was in fifth grade and my teache... AJAY NAIDU Just about every single person in the third grade helped complete the map in some way.
DIANE HUNTER
My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising the... IDINA MENZEL
A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher. DAVID BERGEN
And I was the only black kid in my school for almost all of my childhood, until I was a teenager. So... AISHA TYLER
My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superi... LONI ANDERSON From the time I was ten, I thought of myself as 'good with words,' thanks to a perceptive an...
KAREN HESSE These record enrollment numbers reflect success in diversifying our sports programming and offering ...
BRAD LITTLE We're a little concerned about third grade at Wallace and we wish it was smaller, but for the most p...
JAMES CASEY Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the ...
SARAH SUTTON A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea p... FREEMAN A. HRABOWSKI III That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, eve...
, VLOGBROTHERS, MY NAME IS JOHN GREEN. AND I AM A NERD., 10-30-07 I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
DAVID BOIES I heard a great story recently, I love telling it, of a little girl who was in a drawing lesson, she...
SIR KEN ROBINSON
My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals wh... JAMES D. WATSON
In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teache... CAITLYN JENNER
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it was... GERALDINE BROOKS Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two arti...
DANA PERINO
I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistical... STEVEN WRIGHT My mother was a teacher. She was grooming my brother and me to be successful, accomplished people.
LAVERNE COX
My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actuall... PETER C. DOHERTY
Your first teacher is your mother; the second is people; the third is life; and the fourth is God. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
In third grade, I played basketball with the boys every day at lunch. I had braces that were yellow ... GIGI HADID I’m twenty-four, a first grade teacher, have a Yorkie named Pedro, a goldfish named Fish, have nev...
H.J. BELLUS
I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made... ARIEL LEVY In my opinion, she is the best third baseman I've seen.
KEN RHODEN I was unsure and nervous at first about moving from the teacher-to-student relationship I had with M...
AMY GREEN She got a really good grade.
JENNIE RYLEE She is learning to be a good teacher. She is pushing me. Being a good teacher is about give and take...
KOSTYA TSZYU Those two have been playing together since third grade. They are a lethal one-two punch. They set ea...
KURT HEMPEN One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH
In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's whe... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I remember at the beginning of the season I told coach I felt a lot of pressure, but she told me to ...
MADDIE HUMPHREY She went to the doctor today, and he said it was two weeks before she could start jogging. Alicia an...
AMY FROESS I played the guitar in ninth grade. My sister's friend went on a semester abroad, and she left t...
DAVID WALTON One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by ...
DOUG DUCEY
I was born 50 years after slavery, in 1913. I was allowed to read. My mother, who was a teacher, tau... ROSA PARKS
My mom was always my biggest teacher, my inspiration, my role model. My mom was just the most amazin... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY
I was a hyper kid in school and the teacher suggested to my mom she needed to do something with me. DEVON SAWA Once my mom became a teacher, I saw the importance of education. I've seen the effect a teacher like...
JEAN WEBB
Muriel, my mother, was my main confidant. She was a teacher of English at Watford grammar school but... JOHN SULSTON I have two older brothers, the general and David, who is a teacher. My sister, Sarah, also is a teac...
BEN SHELTON She is not only a teacher to us, she is a true friend. I hope to have her for the rest of my high sc...
BRITTANY SMITH
In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one b... TAYLOR MALI
A heavy snowstorm closed the schools in one town. When the children returned to school a few days l... UNKNOWN I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
ZIYI ZHANG
I like to say, 'I spend one-third of my time in Nigeria, one-third in Europe or America, and one... WOLE SOYINKA I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sud...
KING BACH
If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, the... BRITTANY MURPHY
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.
JAMES TOBACK I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable ...
STEPHEN MANGAN We have put her at third base when we put in our younger catcher and she handles everything (at thir...
CONNIE WHITE When he was in third grade, even the average person could tell he wasn't some guy just shot-putting ...
JEFF BROHM
On my first day of Jr. High I was in Geography class, and the teacher asked us if anybody knew the n... JESSICA SIMPSON
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a teacher, a history teacher. After all, teaching is very much like per... RICHARD DREYFUSS My sister just graduated from school and is going to become a teacher, and she can't afford to live ...
MATT O'CONNOR
When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and... JEFF DUNHAM My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
VINCE CARTER
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade schoo... NANCY PELOSI My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web,... 
The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dea... 
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as t... 
DEATH LEAVES A HEARTACHE NO ONE CAN HEAL, LOVE LEAVES LIVES A MEMORY NO ONE CAN STEAL 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 