My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've always been a draw-er, all throughout elementary school I was the "kid who draws". — Liz Prince Copy Share Image
I read that 36% of Latin kids drop out of high school, and we're the most bullied minority in schools right now.… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“John Davis smells like Play-Doh. When we were in elementary school, it wasn’t a big deal. I mean, we were kids. Play-Doh… — Tammy Blackwell Copy Share Image
I stumbled upon Charles White purely by chance while looking through a book 'Great Negroes, Past and Present' in the library at… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the… — Alessia Cara Copy Share Image
My mother was an elementary school teacher for 35 years and taught at the Nixon School in New Jersey. I was raised… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
“Abuse doesn’t come from people’s inability to resolve conflicts but from one person’s decision to claim a higher status than another. So… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
“I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I… — Judy Budnitz Copy Share Image
Americans need to educate themselves, from elementary school onward, about what their country has done abroad. And they need to play a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday.… — Kristin Kreuk Copy Share Image
“Casey glanced at her plate again, recalling the posters of her elementary school lunchroom: YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT. So, how much… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960. — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
“Doing a geographic” is a term alcoholics often use for acting on the impulse to start over by moving to a new… — Katie Hafner Copy Share Image
“I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty five days… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers. In it, he notes a well-documented Canadian study that shows kids born in January tend to make better… — Karl Vaters Copy Share Image
Open your mind up to things that have no connection with the problem you're trying to solve: subscribe to an unusual magazine;… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary… — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“Someday you will murder your father and be with your mother, he said.” Once I’ve spoken this, put this thought into concrete… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For a number of years at my public elementary school in rural Maine, I was treated like all the other girls in… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I… — Jon Scieszka Copy Share Image
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I've always been creative verbally, had a flair, my teachers said - wrote great expository essays in elementary school, scribbled little poems,… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
