Forest Whitaker

When we talk about the issue of child soldiers, it can be easy to focus just on ending recruitment and liberating those boys and girls who are currently being held in military camps. Obviously, both of these are incredibly important goals, but it's also essential that we not forget about former child soldiers once they are liberated.

American Actor

Jane Smiley

I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only about the children, but also about my former self and my friends.

American Writer

Greg Poehler

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.

Kelly Ayotte

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

American Politician

Omari Hardwick

That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.

Sue Kelly

As a former teacher and a mother and grandmother, I know firsthand the importance of a quality education.

Garet Garrett

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.

American Journalist

Kay Ivey

As a former teacher, I have a high passion for quality student learning and high standards.

Gerald R. Ford

May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.

American President

Tito Ortiz

I know who I am. I'm a former world champion.

American Athlete

Use 'former' to indicate the first of two things mentioned when talking about the past.

Time Sense

'Former' emphasizes that the subject no longer holds a specific status or position.

Not Current

'Former' can imply a significant change in one's life or situation, not just a simple update.

Implies Change

'Former' as a noun usually appears in a technical or craft-oriented context.

Specialized Tool

A 'former' aids in creating uniform shapes, suggesting its repeatability and precision.

Construction Role

In manufacturing, the role of a 'former' directly affects the outcome of a product.

Outcome Oriented

 pushing this acceleration, just like you provide energy to accelerate a car, or gravity does not behave exactly as we think. Most scientists think it's the former, that there's some kind of energy driving the acceleration, and they called it  dark energy . Today's best measurements allow us to work out just how much of the universe is dark.

Dark matter: The matter...

 You can see the full version. I relied overwhelmingly on primary source documents or on primary interviews with former and current prisoners, with people that are dealing with this situation every day. And like I said, I've been there myself, as well. You're doing courageous work. Thank you very much. Thank you all.

The secret US prisons...

 were somehow imbued with the essence of their former celebrity owners. For similar reasons, many of us are reluctant to part with family heirlooms which help us feel connected to lost loved ones. These beliefs can even alter our perception of the physical world and change our athletic abilities.

Why are we so attached...

 I needed to listen. This has been at the front of my mind lately, because I can't help but see in our public discourse so many of the same destructive impulses that ruled my former church. We celebrate tolerance and diversity more than at any other time in memory,

I grew up in the...

 To get underneath this, it can be very helpful to tease out suffering which is necessary as it is, from suffering we can change. The former is a natural, essential part of life, part of the deal, and to this we are called to make space, adjust, grow.

What really matters at...

 after some thoughts I decided to dedicate the book to all the teachers I could remember that it helped me along the way I wrote to one of those teachers or former male professor and my political science PhD programs to let

How to disrupt...

 to return the building to its former religious purposes. The story of the divine wisdom may be far from over, but one can only hope that the many voices residing there will be able to tell their part for years to come.

It's a church. It's a...

 met with my former god. And he decided human rights is not important enough to include in his agendas, and he did not talk about it. And it scares me.

What I learned about...

 there's one thing that unites every former lives from the cenote tracks every form of life had in the forest in