Burning Quote by Ban Ki-moon

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don't know…

— Tommy Caldwell

My childhood memories include a time when the government confiscated my family's possessions and exiled us to a camp in the B.C. Interior, just…

— David Suzuki

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me,…

— Luanne Rice

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

— Janine di Giovanni

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling…

— Ace Young

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…

— Mary Ruefle

I grew up surrounded by two farms and their fields. My earliest memories are of our mongrel dog running around and cows looking in…

— Suranne Jones

When I was 5 years old, we had nothing in the village. One day, in front of my house, some soldiers in a big…

— Renzo Rosso

One of my earliest memories was President [J.F.] Kennedy's funeral. I actually remember sitting on the floor in the living room looking at our…

— Mike Pence

My mom, dad and me were a compact group. They instilled in me a love for the outdoors. On school breaks, we'd go fishing…

— John Carter Cash

My earliest memory was going to my grandma's house, milking the cows, and collecting the eggs from the chickens.

— Gisele Bundchen