Martin Lewis Perl Quotes

I made good grades in school.

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

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

Both my girls have always made great grades in school.

I was always a very good student.

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 would like my kids to study well.

I kind of always did get good grades.

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

So I was doing well academically, and I was a well-ranked tennis player and was the apple of my handsome father's eye-and then I would bring home a report card with a B-plus on it, and my parents would look at the report card as if I'd flunked. "Uh, honey?" one of them would ask, looking perplexed. "Now, this isn't a criticism but, if you could get a B-plus in philosophy, how much harder would it have been to get an A-minus?"

My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.

Schoolwork came kind of natural to me, but when I brought home a grade that wasn't up to par, my parents let me know it.

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the highest cumulative average for our high school, my performance was decidedly mediocre.

For exams, I swotted so hard because I couldn't bear the thought of not coming first.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

How you do in school determines how you do in life.

If I came home with a grade of A, my father would say, 'There must have been a lot of dummies in that class.'

My mum and dad pushed me to work hard in my earlier years in education.

My mum's always had big aspirations because I'm an academic. I always got good grades at school. GCSEs were just a breeze for me.