City Quote by Milkha Singh

The second child of a small farmer with six children, I come from a village in Bihar on the border of Nepal called Belwa.…

— Manoj Bajpayee

The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to…

— Angus Deaton

In Uttar Pradesh there is a district called Shahjahanpur. Fifty kilometers from Shahjahanpur, there is a small, cosy village called Kulra, where my entire…

— Rajpal Yadav

I was 13 or 14 when I was brought from Paramakudi to Chennai by my uncle Kamal Haasan, and I lived under the care…

— Suhasini Maniratnam

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line. Our first school was on a…

— Shukla Bose

We lived in a little village in West Yorkshire in the middle of nowhere.

— Lucy Beaumont

At age 11 in 1960, I moved to an academic state secondary school, Harrow County Grammar School for Boys.

— Paul Nurse

My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small…

— Yami Gautam

My family moved from Rangoon to Rawalpindi during World War II. My father was born in Lahore in 1946. Those were difficult times.

— Rasika Dugal

I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking…

— Marlon James

I come from a small village in Gurdaspur district.

— Guru Randhawa

For somebody like me, who has trained barefoot in a small village in Odisha, I know training without proper facilities can be extremely difficult.…

— Dutee Chand