Children Quote by Chris Cleave

My mother went to Radcliffe, and rather than just trying to get rich, she wanted to be a teacher and taught for over 30…

— Ben Affleck

My mother was the only girl in the family. One brother was District Attorney of Odessa or something; another was teaching classical languages; another…

— George Gamow

I grew up listening in awe to stories of their wartime adventures. My granny, Joan, was a journalist and wrote amazing letters to my…

— Laura Carmichael

My mother was a teacher.

— Hugh Grant

Growing up in the fifties and sixties, I can only remember knowing one child, ever, whose parents got a divorce, and hardly any whose…

— Joyce Maynard

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

— Wendell Pierce

My mother was a professor of English and History.

— Sonu Sood

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

— Maurice Sendak

My parents, they grew up in a time when there was war in Korea. And my grandmother, her husband, my grandfather, was a soldier…

— Lee Isaac Chung

A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they…

— A. S. Byatt

We lived in the schoolhouse of the village school in Church Preen, in deepest Shropshire, and my mum was the schoolmistress. She taught the…

— Mary Beard

My grandfather and mother were school teachers, so there was always some discussion around books.

— Sudha Murty