Camping Quote by Peter Agre

My father was a teacher of the Russian language and literature in high school.

— George Gamow

I had a minor in Russian history, and this was at the time when the big Cold War was going on.

— Kevin J. Anderson

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

My own kids were with me in Berlin when Germany was reunited, and they were with me in Moscow when the Soviet Union collapsed.…

— Serge Schmemann

Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set…

— Mike Wallace

My mother would take groups of students to different countries and always brought us along, so by the time I was 10, I had…

— Eliza Dushku

My father's a diplomat. He speaks Russian.

— Lulu Wang

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was…

— M.I.A

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

— Simon Newcomb

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me -…

— Irina Shayk

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went…

— Ian Frazier