Will Lewis
Will Lewis
William Lewis or Willie Lewis may refer to:...
moving class parent
My parents were determined to move into the middle class.
teacher school parent
My parents regarded school teachers as higher beings, as did many immigrants.
children war years
It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.
distance book home
There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
sports children play
They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
interesting parent language
Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.
mother father school
Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.
curriculum faces world
The experimenter dealing with nature faces an outside and often hard world. Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.
biographies fiction funny-travel
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
curriculum changed
Nature's curriculum cannot be changed.
children school parent
A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
father cities iron
Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
believe marijuana law
I don't believe that laws against things that people do regularly, like safe and responsible use of marijuana, make any sense,
want flow philanthropy
Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.