Grayson Allen Quotes

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

I never thought I would get a degree of any type.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

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

I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.

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

Access to a college degree is critical.

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

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

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

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.

I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

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'!'

Today, and here for the first time in America, a Catholic college for the education of young ladies bestows the bachelor's degree...

It is our duty as legislators to protect the success of our students as they pursue higher education.

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

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

I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.

My parents are very proud that I was a 'Blue Peter' presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

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.

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.