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Classmates Quotes
On school ties, good and difficult.
These classmates quotes range from painful memories of being singled out and mistreated to warmer recollections of shared academic ambition. For more on formative years, see our First quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I was teased mercilessly by my classmates for being a redhead. I wasn't particularly well coordinated either, which made me a bit of a liability in P.E.
- Minority
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a lower-middle-class environment, usually the lone minority among my classmates.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
- Celebrate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in sixth grade at Koko Head Elementary School in Honolulu, and was chosen to pin the 50th star on the American flag in front of my teachers and classmates at a special assembly to celebrate statehood.
- Plan
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- Nov 07, 2020
In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting. Then in first grade I wrote a play, and my classmates and I performed it as a puppet show.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
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- Nov 07, 2020