I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn’t spell it.
I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.
I’m from Wisconsin; well, that’s where I went to school from, like, sixth grade till I graduated high school.
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor’s sixth husband. I know what I’m supposed to do, but I don’t know how to make it interesting.
The reason I think we hold films like ‘The Sixth Sense’ and ‘Citizen Kane’ in such high regard is those are movies that were amplified by their twists but were already bringing the goods.
In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it – to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
My first dunk was actually in sixth grade.
I vividly remember sixth grade. It’s the year when kids turn mean, and it’s definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.
In many ways, ‘What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World’ is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D’Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
The first song I wrote was called ‘Here I Go Falling In Love’ I wrote it in the sixth grade.
I suppose I’ve always lived in my own head. I didn’t discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, ‘Oh! Boys!’
I don’t know everybody’s view on due process, but I do have an opinion on what the Constitution says, what the Pledge of Allegiance implies, what sixth- and seventh-graders are taught in civics classes, and I think it is that you’re going to have the opportunity to be heard.
I’ve been six feet tall since the sixth grade.
Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
I started when I was in sixth grade, playing Pop Warner. I played running back, quarterback, cornerback… all over the place.
‘The Sixth Sense’ was a very enjoyable, successful movie despite the fact that there were plenty of people, including myself, who saw the ending coming.
You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.
Engineers don’t have that sixth sense where we can just toss in things here and there like many chefs.
I was always pretty good with making deals. When I was in sixth grade, when Pokemon cards were hot, I might have started with, like, three or four cards, and then at the end of the year, through trading with my friends and everything, I ended up with the biggest card collection in my school.
I went to my first go-go when I was in, like, sixth grade.
I remember when the results of the All India Engineering exams came out. I ranked 7th. I even got a scholarship. But it was during the sixth semester of my engineering course that I decided to call it quits and pursue acting seriously.
Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.
‘The Sixth Sense’ is fine the second time around, but honestly, the first time around, it’s dazzling.
I remember my first day of chemo as if it were yesterday, hanging up my favorite summer dress like an athlete retiring a jersey. Within a few weeks, my waist had shrunk to a double zero – the size it was when I was in the sixth grade. My cheek bones jutting out. Rings under my eyes. Skin the color of chalk.
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
In the summer after sixth grade, I took a class at St. Robert Bellarmine. My first role, I was the villain in a play, and I forgot all my lines. I think I cried my way through the performance.
