My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It… — Faith Evans Copy Share Image
It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play,… — Marie Winn Copy Share Image
Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I wasn't really driven to be an actor or anything, but in college I decided to study acting, much to my parents'… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer… — Keith Richards Copy Share Image
There is a wonderful documentary called 'A Room to Breathe,' where a school brought in a TM instructor, to try and establish… — James Redford Copy Share Image
I started playing music around 13 or 14, played jazz in high school, and played other stuff in college. After college, I… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer?" I nodded and pulled out my… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I definitely want to make it very clear to everybody that the educational institution that we have, the school that Will and… — Jada Pinkett Smith Copy Share Image
We [film supervisors] always try to encourage discussion in the room because a lot of times newer animators who are just out… — Victor Navone Copy Share Image
Not having finished high school and having been fairly utilitarian in the way I went about college, I didn't have a deep… — Joy Covey Copy Share Image
I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of… — Allison Williams Copy Share Image
I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these… — Roel Reine Copy Share Image
That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I… — Amy Grant Copy Share Image
I've lived on a military base and in a convent boarding school with dobermans at the bottom of front stairs to keep… — Kit Reed Copy Share Image
A whetstone is no carving instrument, And yet it maketh sharp the carving tool; And if you see my efforts wrongly spent,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've… — Pam Dawber Copy Share Image
The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that results exist only on the outside.The result of a business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I always say, thank god I have this job or I don't know what I'd be doing. It'd be sad. I've always… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and… — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
Listeners are kind of ambushed... if a poem just happens to be said when they're listening to the radio. The listener doesn't… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I was first influenced by a friend in fifth grade when he brought a Walkman to school and was listening to 'Paradise… — Darren Robinson Copy Share Image
They are allowing young kids in primary school to be able to have the permission to change their gender if they want… — Israel Folau Copy Share Image
I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there… — Calvin Johnson Copy Share Image
The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike,… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should have the opportunity of… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
When I was three and a half years old, I heard my big sister tell my mum that at school that day… — Caterina Scorsone Copy Share Image
I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every… — Jessie J Copy Share Image
There's a darkness under 'The Hangover' because ultimately there's a missing person and it's not really that funny. There's a sort of… — Todd Phillips Copy Share Image
I miss going to school and having friends; that's normal for anyone my age. I had a very boring childhood because I… — Selena Copy Share Image
I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Sixty-five percent of Americans don't have the conversation with their children. So you're sending off boys and girls off to college, off… — Mariska Hargitay Copy Share Image
I did a couple of writing seminars in Canada with high school kids. These were the bright kids; they all have computers,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“This past year, sometimes I would get up in the mornings and actually look forward to going to school because I knew… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Apparently almost anyone can do a better job of educating children than our so-called 'educators' in the public schools. Children who are… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image