Class Quote by Julia Holter

When I got to 10th grade at Booker T. Washington High, I had a teacher, Miss Geraldine Nesbitt. I think she came from New…

— Claudette Colvin

I grew up in and identify with and that she works and exists in.

— Abdellatif Kechiche

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time…

— Paul Nurse

When my mother finally arrived in America in the late 1960s, she attended Swarthmore College and majored in political science.

— Alex Wagner

While at The Evergreen State College, I met Doranne Crable, and she was so dynamic and adventurous that I decided on the spot to…

— Bre Pettis

My mother taught in the schools in Toronto Centre.

— Annamie Paul

She used to be a teacher but she has no class now.

— Fred Allen

When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose…

— Edward Hirsch

My parents, grandmother and brother were teachers. My mother taught Latin and French and was the school librarian. My father taught geography and a…

— Sam Abell

I have taught students from the New York City area so long I have a special affinity and rapport with them. It surprises me…

— Robert Morgan

I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

— Elizabeth George

I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influence.

— David Almond