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I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.
Sue Grafton

College, Year, State

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.
Ken Buck

Prayer, Idea, State

We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.
Tavis Smiley

Again, Last, Few

I remembered a mantra that one of my teachers used to tell me at drama school, that every thought will pass across your face. Even if you're thinking about Shreddies the camera will read it.
Ruth Wilson

School, Thinking, Thought

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.
Fantasia Barrino

Music, Dad, School

I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
Matt Bomer

Crazy, Acting, Definitely

Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
Charlie Day

Music, Parents, Both

We need more male black teachers, tempting them with extra cash if necessary.
Trevor Phillips

Black, Necessary, Male

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.
Christine Lavin

Good, Class, Clown

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.
Mary Augusta Ward

Home, Live, Child

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.
Mary Stuart Masterson

Great, Medical, School

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really tired.' This was when I was being a bad kid and she knew that something was wrong.
Cecily von Ziegesar

Tired, Bad, Saying

I learned life from some good teachers.
Eddie Murray

Life, Good, Learned

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.
Jeremy Paxman

Find, Leaving, Whole

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.
Miranda Otto

Friends, Sun, Child

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.
Jayma Mays

School, Loved, Math

I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great!
Emma Stone

Women, Great, Movies

My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
Vanessa Williams

Parents, Off, Both

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
Nancy Cartwright

Fire, Substitute, Authorized

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.
Sonny Perdue

Best, Art, True

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
Bainbridge Colby

Strength, Country, Result

And I was lucky enough to have teachers that really, really looked out for me and really encouraged all that. And in rural Louisiana, that was a rare thing back then.
William Joyce

Enough, Lucky, Rare

Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.
Knute Nelson

Children, Purpose, Support

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.
Yvonne Strahovski

Good, School, Pretty

Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Live, Parents, May

I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.
Marla Gibbs

Trust, Positive, Path

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.
Frederick Sanger

After, Year, Result

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine

Everyone, United, Terrible

When I was 17, I was hyperactive and annoyed my teachers.
Keegan Allen

I mean, a lot of my family are teachers.
Craig T. Nelson

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