Brian Acton Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

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

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.

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

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 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.

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 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.

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

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'

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

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

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

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?