I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didnt see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education. – Clyde Tombaugh
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didnt want to stay on the farm. It didnt offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck. – Clyde Tombaugh
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living? – Clyde Tombaugh
Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did. – Clyde Tombaugh
I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years. – Michele Bachmann