Calvin Trillin Quotes

I was a good student and stuff like that.

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents.

I'm arrogant enough to tell you that I'm smart enough to have scored higher on my Scholastic Aptitude Test than any US president whose SAT score has been made public. I even scored higher than ex-presidential candidate Al Gore, whose SAT score was so high, it was deemed as potentially off-putting to voters.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

I was okay with school. My sister Kourtney was extremely smart. I always read a little slower.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

Kids flourish if we get them to school every day.

I hated school, but I was a good student. I made straight A's.

Consequently the student who is devoid of talent will derive no more profit from this work than barren soil from a treatise on agriculture.

I always have to bring back an all-A report card.

I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.

I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics.

I made good grades in school.

I was a good student in school.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

I feel much alarmed at the prospect of seeing General Jackson President. He is one of the most unfit men I know of for such a place. He has had very little respect for laws and constitutions, and is, in fact, an able military chief. His passions are terrible.

A President who has served in the military is better able to serve as Commander in Chief …. I was a better President for having served …

A military leader should always understand, of all human endeavors... the one that's the most unpredictable and the most costly is warfare.