Books Quote by George Gamow

Russian is a really hard language - but I've got my own personal teacher. He's been really patient.

— Rachel Riley

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really…

— Clive James

I read Russian literature a lot.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.

— Lulu Wang

I grew up around books - my grandmother's house, where I lived as a small child, was full of books. My father was a…

— John Irving

My dad was an English professor.

— Blake Lively

Following my junior year in high school, I went on a camping trip through Russia in a group led by Horst Momber, a young…

— Peter Agre

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius…

— Robert Gottlieb

My father was a writer and an acting teacher.

— Noah Hathaway

When I am teaching, I first give out Tolstoy's 'Childhood,' his first published book. It is so transparent. It gives you exactly what it…

— Claire Messud

One of the last courses I taught was on the Russian short story, which I love.

— Tobias Wolff