“It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.” ThinkingWritingBelieveWellsHardMotherNightGamesInterestImaginationCareersCollegeSeriousPursuitMy SisterEvery NightMake BelievePlaying Make Believe Author:Sara Zarr
“I knew that I wanted to pursue acting as a profession during my sophomore year of college. One of my Professors (Karen Deacons-Brock) at N.C Central University assigned me to perform a one woman show for my final project and it was then, along with her encouragement, that it was time for me to move to NY in pursuit of a professional acting career.” YearsShowsWantedMovingActingCareersCollegeProjectsEncouragementFinalsUniversityProfessionPursuitPursueProfessorsOne WomanSophomoreSophomore YearDeacons Author:April Parker Jones
“The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.” ShouldCollegeResourcesUniversityPursuitAcademic Author:Howard Zinn
“A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.” HeartDoeRealitySpiritualLawNationsStudySkyStudentsCollegeMaterialsMoonVariousEducationalPursuitEngagedBarren Author:Sai Baba
“Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.” FirstsKidsLibertyRightsCollegeHigh SchoolPursuitSantaPursuit Of HappinessBarbaraRight To LifeColumbineSanta Barbara Author:Barack Obama
“When I was playing college football, they would take the football team to a ballet school. We would learn to do tour jete's to prepare us when you are running in pursuit to tackle a ball carrier and you get hit, or somebody comes from another angle. This way you can spin away from the hit and your foot is out so you can go right into your run - basically, it pushed us toward the tackle. There's a good tweet: "Take ballet - it will push you towards the tackle."” WayRunningSchoolTeamFeetFootballCollegeBallsPursuitBalletAngleTweetFootball TeamCarrierCollege Football Author:Gary Busey