Career Quote by Rebecca Traister

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

— Tracy Austin

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

— Wendell Pierce

During my senior year, I was supposed to spend a semester student teaching, but decided I couldn't be a teacher. My aunt Beth's friend…

— Siobhan Fallon Hogan

My mother and father met at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was a senior and she was a junior, and their marriage…

— Michael Douglas

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

— Alex Wagner

My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School.

— Gwen Stefani

I went to the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago.

— Harvey Korman

If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in,…

— Shiv Nadar

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

Bill Cosby was one of the first people I met at the Mansion, shortly after I met Hef in 1968.

— Barbi Benton

I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of…

— Alice Walker