It was depressing very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet without a college education I felt that I was really out of luck.
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.
I became an art major took every art class my school had to offer. In college I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
I offer neither pay nor quarters nor food I offer only hunger thirst forced marches battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart and not merely with his lips follow me.
A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer.
I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures and laughter.
America needs jobs smaller government less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.
I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.'
From cell phones to computers quality is improving and costs are shrinking as companies fight to offer the public the best product at the best price. But this philosophy is sadly missing from our health-care insurance system.
I understand that computers which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing however it may appear on the surface.
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth as human truth all the maps change. There are new mountains.
If you've ever made change in the offering plate you might be a redneck.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me and if somebody is moved by it that's beautiful.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Often the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past regret for their fading beauty.
Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
The work of art just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness the rigidity the regularity the luster on every interior and exterior facet of the crystal.
What the mass media offers is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.
Summer is a great time to visit art museums which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water you immerse yourself in art.
What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
If we really want to be full and generous in spirit we have no choice but to trust at some level.