Wilmette Quotes

#1. On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

Jonathan Kozol

#2. I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

Nelson Mandela

#3. I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

J.G. Ballard

#4. In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

Peter Blair Henry

#5. I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.

Sherri Shepherd

#6. People should be judged on the things they do, not how they look.

Nick Carter

#7. Stop wanting wealth and fame and start wanting instead to do something well about which you are passionate

Stephen Fry

#8. Is it any wonder that I absent-mindedly take the entrance marked Aliens Only whenever I enter?

Lawrence Durrell

#9. All of life is a test.

Pittacus Lore