I did get a degree in special education. – Clay Aiken
Well, financially its a little bit better. But its better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of – its allowed me to buy a house. And Ive been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, thats nice. – Clay Aiken
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. – Clay Aiken
My mother taught me that we all have the power to achieve our dreams. What I lacked was the courage. – Clay Aiken
I think that every child grows up with the ideas that what we are given, is our society. Your education, and your mother and father, they tell you this is how it is, but then you hit adolescence and you think, Is it? Why? Why is it like that? Sometimes that questioning leads to something more. – Alice Englert
Presently a light breeze sprang up, rolling the fog before it, and then dying away, leaving the lighthouse enshrouded…. The two great fog-bells of the lighthouse were therefore set agoing, and they rang out their slow deep-toned peal all that day and all that night… – R.M. Ballantyne, The Lighthouse: Being the Story of a Great Fight Between Man an