Elementary
Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance.
Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental; introductory; as, an elementary treatise.
Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire.
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Elementary Quotations
I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
Carl Sagan
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
Albert Schweitzer
There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.
Chris Van Allsburg
I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.
Tony Dungy
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Billy Crystal
Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.
Susan Sontag
I was an elementary school teacher.
Luciano Pavarotti
I did some school plays in elementary school, but that was it.
Jason Mewes
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
Sally Ride
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Charles Babbage
Elementary Translations
elementary in Dutch is elementair
elementary in German is elementare, elementar
elementary in Portuguese is elementar
elementary in Spanish is elemental
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