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
I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
I hate to say I'm a Cinderfella, but I've been watching the Globes since I was an embryo. I got a Facebook… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
I remember in school - in elementary school - I used to recite poems. We'd have to recite poems. And I would… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
“During an especially noisy elementary school assembly I witnessed a common marvel. Someone spoke, "Once upon a time..." into the mic, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school, and every year, I… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
I noticed, when I taught elementary school, how true the squeaky wheel thing is, and how endearing squeaky wheels can be! Because… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
Not being like everyone else is a great thing, but when you're in elementary school, you want people to like you, and… — Katy Rose Copy Share Image
It is not scholarship alone, but scholarship impregnated with religion, that tells on the great mass of society. We have no faith… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
My parents, who were split up, were so good at keeping my environment strong and keeping everything around me not focused on… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“The researchers discovered that there was a dramatic shift from an internal to an external locus of control in children of all… — Jessica Joelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I have an extremely difficult time wrapping my head around such a tragic event as the Elementary school massacre in Connecticut and… — Pamela Moore 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
It was in Shizuoka, where my home was. I first attended this school when I was five years old. I also attended… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
“[Reverend James] Dobson says that the [Spongebob Squarepants] video would be watched by millions of elementary school students and includes a reference… — Celia Rivenbark Copy Share Image
“All I can say is that I’m grateful that in many ways they just let me be. They didn’t want my rough… — Tommy Caldwell Copy Share Image
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at Meadowbrook Elementary School and… — Kay Granger Copy Share Image
“Who decides those things? And why don’t I know about them? Is there some sort of meeting, or maybe an assembly, like… — Krysta MacDonald Copy Share Image
Nick? Nick Hurley?" I asked, laughing. He took back his hat. "You'll be sorry to hear I don't make gross faces as… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed… — Jonathan Tucker Copy Share Image
The World Health Organization recently concluded that glyphosate, the main ingredient in the most-used herbicide on GMOs, is "possibly carcinogenic to humans."… — Zoe Lister-Jones Copy Share Image
I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“By the latter part of the first millennium of the Current Era, the system we use today to write numbers and do… — Keith J. Devlin Copy Share Image
“This was always the difficult part, back when she'd been at her old school: explaining that "asexual" and "aromantic" were different things.… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town in a low-income family and was the only black kid in my elementary school. I… — Lori Lightfoot Copy Share Image
We don't invest in financial literacy in a meaningful way. We should be teaching elementary school children how to balance a checkbook,… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
Kids and just young people in general are usually a lot more, I guess, open-minded to change. Especially when you're really little… — Nicole Maines Copy Share Image
“For almost twenty-five years, we tracked the life progress of 790 children who began first grade in the fall of 1982 in… — Karl Alexander Copy Share Image
I used to take musical instruments home from elementary school. There were some music teachers there - we all learned instruments. A… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.'… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
“The drone in my ear, it’s like the tornado drill in elementary school, the hand-cranked siren that rang mercilessly, all of us… — Megan Abbott 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
Avery worries about her, too, so Lissa's in good hands. Avery's pretty amazing." I gave him a scathing look. "Amazing? Do you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so… — Kim Smith 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 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