Ninth Grade Quotes:

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

- Bubba Smith

topic: Sports, Ninth Grade, Grades

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

- Donna Rice Hughes

topic: Television, Firsts, Ninth Grade, Huts, Thirteen

I was in, like, nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

- Jessica Stroup

topic: School, Nine, Ninth Grade

I ran for ninth grade class president. Came in a close second.

- Kristin Lehman

source: "Q&A – Kristin Lehman (Gwen Eaton)". AMCtv.com Interview, www.amc.com.

topic: Class, President, Ninth Grade, Class President

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

- Scott Hamilton

topic: Teacher, Ninth Grade, Grades

I was in like nine schools by ninth grade, so I moved a ton of times when I was younger.

- Jessica Stroup

source: "EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Stroup Dishes on 90210". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 6, 2009.

topic: School, Nine, Ninth Grade

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Latin, Ninth Grade, Grades

My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

- Sanford I. Weill

topic: New York, Florida, Parent, Ninth Grade

When I was real young I wanted to play baseball. I really loved playing center field, but that was never anything I was really ever that good at. I played up until I was in ninth grade.

- Ryan Sypek

topic: Baseball, Real, Play, Ninth Grade, Center Field

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

- Rick Perry

topic: School, College, Texas, Ninth Grade, Preps

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

- Bill Gates

topic: Ninth Grade, Math Class, Good Grades

If your eyes weren't open, you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking.

- Richelle Mead

topic: Dream, Eye, Differences, Ninth Grade, Rose Hathaway

I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

- Eminem

topic: Mother, Growing Up, Father, Ninth Grade, Single Parent

From about ninth grade on, I knew I was a writer at heart. I had fantasies of being a great novelist, but I thought that seemed like an iffy way to try to make a living. So I tried journalism while in college, and really liked it. But even in journalism, I've always pursued ways to be somewhat literary, whether writing a column or writing books.

- Kevin Maney

source: Source: bobmorris.biz

topic: Book, Writing, Heart, Ninth Grade

I don’t know what I’m doing in the next five minutes and she has the next ten years figured out. I’ll worry about making it out of ninth grade alive. Then I’ll think about a career path.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

source: Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.53, Macmillan

topic: Thinking, Years, Careers, Ninth Grade, Career Path

ONCE WHEN I WAS ninth grade i had to write a paper on a poem. One of the lines was"If your eyes weren't open you wouldn't know the difference between dreaming and waking' It hadn't meant meant much to me at the time. After all there'd been a guy in the class that i liked so how could i be expected to pay attention to literary analysis? Now three year later i understand the poem perfectly.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy”, p.10, Penguin UK

topic: Dream, Writing, Eye, Ninth Grade

My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing wheel barrels of heavy wet cement. So we've gone from pushing cement to now in one generation pushing legislation. But we always want any president to succeed, to do well; that means America does well and Americans do well.

- John Barrasso

topic: Dad, School, Mean, Ninth Grade

I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

- Sarah Dessen

topic: Morning, Sorry, School, Ninth Grade

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

- George Carlin

source: Source: mavericksofthemind.com

topic: School, Needs, Study, Ninth Grade

I don't have a lot of experience running basketball teams.I'm just trying to get smart enough even to understand everything going on. As much of a fan as I am, I haven't played the game since ninth-grade. If you told me when I bought the team that there were 12 kinds of pick and rolls, I would've told you I have no frickin' clue about that.

- Steve Ballmer

source: "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

topic: Basketball, Running, Team, Ninth Grade

I can remember being bullied and teased. It was absolutely horrible. I got kicked out of ninth grade for throwing a book at a girl who teased me. It was absolutely terrible.

- Temple Grandin

source: "Autism & animal welfare activist Temple Grandin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 5, 2013.

topic: Girl, Book, Remember, Ninth Grade, Being Bullied

I dropped out in middle school. I dropped out in, towards the beginning of the ninth grade. And then I started studying -I started taking acting classes at a, well first I was like in a community theater at that time in Torrance, California, so I finished up like my season with that community theater just acting in, you know, acting in a small part on this play or a big part on that play or a stage manager or assistant stage manager in another play.

- Quentin Tarantino

source: "Quentin Tarantino: 'Inglourious' Child Of Cinema". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 28, 2009.

topic: School, Class, Play, Ninth Grade, Stage Managers

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.

- Dave Barry

source: Dave Barry (2011). “Dave Barry Is Not Taking This Sitting Down”, p.15, Ballantine Books

topic: Hands, Years, People, Ninth Grade

I got to ninth grade and there was wrestling, and I went, 'Wait a minute, this is fun.' Basically, it was a chance for a small kid like me to get a chance to wail on another small kid. I went, 'I love this.' The discipline of it was great. Plus, I really started to be good at it.

- Robin Williams

topic: Fun, Kids, Wrestling, Ninth Grade

Compassion speaks with a slight accent. She was a vulnerable child, miserable in school, cold, shy ... In ninth grade she was befriended by Courage. Courage lent Compassion bright sweaters, explained the slang, showed her how to play volleyball.

- J. Ruth Gendler

topic: Volleyball, Children, School, Ninth Grade, Slang

Even though I didn't notice it while it was happening, I got reminded in ninth grade of a few things I guess I should have known all along. 1. A first kiss after five months means more than a first kiss after five minutes. 2. Always remember what it was like to be six. 3. Never, ever stop believing in magic, no matter how old you get. Because if you keep looking long enough and don't give up, sooner or later you're going to find Mary Poppins. And if you're reall lucky, maybe even a purple balloon.

- Steve Kluger

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Mean, Ninth Grade, My Most Excellent Year

If stakes and garlic were the top two things that could kill a vampire, ninth grade gym was a close third.

- Heather Brewer

source: Heather Brewer (2008). “Ninth Grade Slays #2: The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod”, p.140, Penguin

topic: Two, Vampire, Garlic, Ninth Grade

You look ridiculous,” Wren said. “What?” “That shirt.” It was a Hello Kitty shirt from eighth or ninth grade. Hello Kitty dressed as a superhero. It said SUPER CAT on the back, and Wren had added an H with fabric paint. The shirt was cropped too short to begin with, and it didn’t really fit anymore. Cath pulled it down self-consciously. “Cath!” her dad shouted from downstairs. “Phone.” Cath picked up her cell phone and looked at it “He must mean the house phone,” Wren said. “Who calls the house phone?” “Probably 2005. I think it wants its shirt back.

- Rainbow Rowell

source: Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.521, St. Martin's Griffin

topic: Dad, Mean, Cat, Ninth Grade, Wrens

When I think about that kind of spirit. I think about my mother, who is standing here with me tonight. My mother is the embodiment of what it means to have a Texas spirit because she wanted nothing more than for her children to have a better life than she had, to have an education beyond the ninth-grade education that she had, to live happier lives, more successful ones than she had been able to live. And you know what? She raised the daughter who ran for governor.

- Wendy Davis

source: "Wendy Davis Concedes Race for Texas Governor With Heartfelt Speech" by Jill Filipovic, www.cosmopolitan.com. November 5, 2014.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Children, Ninth Grade, Happier Life

It's a template record for the intersection between pop and noise, starting out with 'Sunday Morning' - a real beautiful, almost innocent sunny day song. You have a lot of different types of things on one record. It can be really pretty, or it can be really awful inside, depending on where your head's at at the moment. I got it in ninth grade and I think I've listened to it every month since then.

- Craig Finn

topic: Beautiful, Song, Morning, Ninth Grade, Intersections

I been drunk most my life, don't ask me why. Through ninth grade, I ain't go to high school, ...I went to school high.

- Sheek Louch

topic: Rap, School, Drunk, Ninth Grade