Yvonne Orji Quotes

Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.

We didn't have much, but I was raised to believe if you had books, you had a lot. My grandfather and my parents made me and my twin brother Kiel read at least a book a week.

Oh, my parents never cracked a book, just newspapers.

My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that.

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

My father didn't make us fighters, he made us teachers.

My parents didn't speak English. They learned it little by little. They realized that education was the ticket to a better future in their own rudimentary way. They kept the house clean, kept us on the straight and narrow, and none of us ever got into trouble with the law.

Most of my ideals and stuff really come from my mother.

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.

I really, really admire my parents so much, for how they raised me. They're some of the best human beings I know.

My parents were there: in front of me, behind me, in the middle of my life at all times: reprimanding me, giving me confidence, teaching me valuable lessons, to help make me the man I am today.

I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

I came up poor. My mother only had a fourth-grade education. My dad didn't have any education at all. But they were very structured. They worked hard. You know, they didn't complain. They didn't murmur. And they believe in the Christ.

When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that.

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor.

I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

My mother insisted that her children read.

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.

My parents lived a modest life, and their main concern was the education of their children. My father was a self-taught man but had a great intellectual curiosity, not only for biblical and talmudic texts, but also for philosophy, psychoanalysis and history.

I owe my mother who I am, and my father my drive.

My mam and dad have brought me up well.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?