Tina Fey Quotes

Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.

Kids did really well in their A levels, how do we respond? 'A Levels are getting easier, in my day you had to do fifty questions in a minute, if you got one wrong, they killed your dad!

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.

Of course you're nervous going into a final.

A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban cocktail parties that comes from announcing one's son or daughter as an Ivy Leaguer.

I push every day against forces that say you have to go faster, be more effective, be more productive, you have to constantly outdo yourself, you have to constantly outdo your neighbor - all of the stuff that creates an incredibly productive society, but also a very neurotic one.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

It's funny, there are so many women who are former executives and have taken all that stress and anxiety and transferred it onto their kids.

I went into broadcast journalism. I loved every class I took, I just got anxious because I came to the realization that you're groomed in high school to get good SAT scores to get into a good college or else you're done for.

People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools for theater. I was like, 'I'm obviously not cut out for this, so I might as well just go into film.'

When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education.

Renegade scientists and totalitarian loonies are not the folks most likely to abuse genetic engineering. You and I are--not because we are bad but because we want to do good. In a world dominated by competition, parents understandably want to give their kids every advantage. ... The most likely way for eugenics to enter into our lives is through the front door as nervous parents ... will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes.

I was born knowing I had to go to college.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

It is hard sometimes, we live in a world where results and all these things matter.

All the people who can't get into Michigan go to Michigan State.

A lot of my new material is about being a dad for the first time, about how amazing and stressful it is to be a parent. But don't worry, you will still laugh if you have never had kids.

Very often when we aim at the best, or what we may think is the best for our children, we aim really at lesser things, such as getting into a certain college.

Either you have a sense of humor about [being a former child star], or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.

As more women have gone into the workforce, they find it harder to be a good mother and a good worker. When I go into the office, I always feel guilty. I'm thinking about the children. When I'm at home, I'm thinking about my work. So you're always under tremendous pressure. Women feel very stressed. They feel like they're working harder and harder and harder. And society is not really helping them.

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.