I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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PAT ADAMS I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a ke... FREDERICK REINES So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to ... PATRICK J. ADAMS In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to... LAURA ROBSON Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a ... ALICE WATERS My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interes... FLIP WILSON I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked persona... SKITCH HENDERSON I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Iri... EDMUND BARTON During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who car... J. MICHAEL BISHOP I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium ... LAKSHMI MITTAL Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fi... ANONYMOUS Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for fiv... GEORGE BURNS Being an old school teacher, I look at this as a final exam for my seniors. For the other 15 kids in... BOB DWYER I honestly figured it was a long shot. All colleges are so competitive now, and being an Ivy League ... BECKY LLOYD Michael J. Fox was my idol. I always wanted to be Michael J. Fox. 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FOX It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky. MICHAEL J. FOX On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us. J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan... MICHAEL J. FOX There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl... J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a... MICHAEL J. FOX The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an... MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ... MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula... MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc... MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or... MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ... MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had... MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm. “Yes, I see it, but—” �... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked. “With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?” “Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken. MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book o... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had t... MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN