#rug

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day. ↗

— Mary Antin

#bare #conversation #correctly #day #evening

It was not easy for my mother, being a struggling actress and raising a child. We were these two sort of vagabonds, never knowing where the money was going to come from. She always says she couldn't afford a babysitter, which is why she put me on the stage. ↗

— Christina Applegate

#afford #always #babysitter #being #child

I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#impatient #lifelong #long struggle #sharp #struggle

Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy. ↗

— John Astin

#easy #express #felt #get #how

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls of Black Folk. ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#black #book #deeper #folk #gives

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#ever #expensive #extremely #how #knows

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle. ↗

— Balthus

#consciousness #criticism #experience #feel #great

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me. ↗

— Ann Bancroft

#had #i #lousy #lucky #me

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#considerable #english #english school #event #games

Repeating a grade needs to be the last resort, not an automatic response to a child who is struggling to learn. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#child #grade #last #learn #needs