Betty Dodson Quotes

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

Being the first in my family to go to college, I believe, is my greatest accomplishment. It's not my accomplishment; it's my family's accomplishment.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I've been really lucky as an inventor. I'm the happiest guy you're ever going to meet. And my dad died before he realized anybody in the family would maybe, hopefully, make something out of themselves.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

I am one of seven kids, number five of seven, and the first of my siblings to graduate from high school and the first to graduate from college.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.