Carlos Tevez Quotes

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home.

I know that if I had got educated, I might have ended up as a call-center employee.

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

There is definitely places in America where, if you're born into that environment, your chances of getting out are really, really limited.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

My father had left school at 18, without enough money to go to college - and, with four sons after the war, said he could still not afford to do so.

Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

In the India I was growing up in, history wasn't really a wise career option. People would joke and say, 'History's okay, but what's your actual job?' I didn't come from a privileged background and couldn't afford to be irresponsible, so I did the pragmatic thing and did a MBA.

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

It isn't the rich people's fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.