Christopher Fowler Quotes

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

Studying is something I really love doing, and I just hope to have enough money for tuition.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

My parents worked enormously hard to put four children through college. We didn't have a lot of money.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

The first things I did was I was a writer, painter, and photographer, and we grew up very poor, so even though I could get into any college I wanted, there was no way to pay for it.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

It was always assumed that I would go to college.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.