Diana Silvers Quotes

It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

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

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.

I crammed my exams in London and did fine.

I'm not devastated over a baseball game. If somebody came to me and said, 'Your wife is terminally ill.' Or, if my kids and wife get on a plane and I got a call that said, 'Something happened with the plane,' that's devastating.

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.

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels.

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

This is to inform all the Students that their Attendance at College Orders is hereby dispensed with … and that they are at liberty to return Home or prosecute their Studies elsewhere, as they think proper: And that those who pay particular Attention to their Studies that these as these confused Times will admit, shall then be considered in the same Light and Standing as if they had given the usual Attendance here.

The single most important factor in determining [student] achievement is not the color of skin or where they come from. It is not who their parents are or how much money they have. It is who their teacher is.

I was studying at Stanford University with two quarters left to go before receiving an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering. Then, I got the telephone call from my mother. I had no choice. I went home, and I jumped into the company feet first, right from day one. There was no time to grieve my father.

My mother was widowed twice before she turned forty.

There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school where they do well.

My worst nightmare when I was in school was that I would get into trouble. I never got in trouble. I was a good student.

I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

My brother was the first to be home-schooled, and one reason they home-schooled me was so he wouldn't get jealous. Another thing is my mom noticed that I would stress out a lot about school. I would ask my teacher how good my grades were and think about that all the time.

I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged.

Whether by my own volition or otherwise, I was given a year-and-a-half break after Dad passed. It was kind of like an elephant in the room, and everyone was giving me space, whether I wanted it or not.

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.

As a former teacher, I know how frustrating it must be to watch students walk out of class, particularly if they have important exams on the horizon.

If a teacher goes, 'Do you guys want an easy test?' You're going to say, 'Heck, yeah.' The less you've got to study, I'm going ace this test.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

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