Kindergarten Quotes (71 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Mitchell Zuckoff
„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.“
Picture of quotation author Ziyi Zhang
„I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.“
― Ziyi Zhang ―
Picture of quotation author Zendaya
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Binyavanga Wainaina
„In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?'“
Picture of quotation author Allegra Versace
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Amy Tan
„My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.“
― Amy Tan ―
Picture of quotation author Alison Sweeney
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Adora Svitak
„My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.“
― Adora Svitak ―
Picture of quotation author Kiefer Sutherland
„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.“
Picture of quotation author Elisabeth Shue
„For many years, I decided not to do television because I have three children, but now my youngest is finally old enough to be in kindergarten. So I'm not feeling that kind of tug of not being with her as much.“
― Elisabeth Shue ―
Picture of quotation author Mark Shriver
„Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.“
― Mark Shriver ―
Picture of quotation author Charles J. Shields
„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.“
Picture of quotation author Chloe Sevigny
„I had always wanted to be an actress. I went to summer theater camp from kindergarten on up until high school, and always had the leads in all the plays - even though they were at the YMCA - but it was something I always wanted to do.“
― Chloe Sevigny ―
Picture of quotation author Dan Savage
„School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.“
― Dan Savage ―
Picture of quotation author Doris Roberts
„When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.“
― Doris Roberts ―
Picture of quotation author Robert Redford
„I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.“
― Robert Redford ―
Picture of quotation author Tom Rath
„When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.“
― Tom Rath ―
Picture of quotation author Brad Pitt
„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 ―
Picture of quotation author Jim Parsons
„I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.“
― Jim Parsons ―
Picture of quotation author Linda Sue Park
„I've been writing for as long as I can remember, and reading even before that. My mom still has stories that I wrote when I was in kindergarten. I was a reader and a re-reader. That's the main reason I became a writer.“
― Linda Sue Park ―

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