Logo
Quote by Kate Atkinson
My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopke

My father was an autodidact. It wasnt a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education – he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasnt allowed to go. – Kate Atkinson

Other quotes by Kate Atkinson

When Im writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I cant read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day. – Kate Atkinson

Category:
Food
Author
Kate Atkinson
Read Quote

Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination – they dont conform to the reality thats around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress. – Kate Atkinson

Category:
Imagination
Author
Kate Atkinson
Read Quote

The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes. – Kate Atkinson

Category:
Death
Author
Kate Atkinson
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Education
category

To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us. – Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Category:
Education

I dont think anybody anywhere can talk about the future of their people or of an organization without talking about education. Whoever controls the education of our children controls our future. – Wilma Mankiller

Category:
Education

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. – John F. Kennedy

Category:
Education

No Child Left Behind requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms. – Dianne Feinstein

Category:
Education

Random Quotes

To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all. – Lyndon B. Johnson

Category:
Career, Vocation

I have arm-wrestled here and there… guys seem to want to test my strength. – Shania Twain

Category:
strength

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him. – Halle Berry

Category:
dad

Im so critical of myself. Im actually really, really proud of the film. Its really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive. – Giovanni Ribisi

Category:
cool