Roz Chast Quotes

My parents don't press it but, you know, they're into good grades.

I made good grades in school.

I was a good student. My mom is a teacher, and her side of the family is all teachers. She put a big emphasis on getting good grades.

Both my parents are teachers, and while they were always cool with what I did, they never let me take my education lightly.

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

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

Going to school and working for good marks, indeed working for very good marks, was a serious business.

The rule with my mom was that the only way that I could be an actress when I was young was that I continued to go to public school and get straight A's in all my classes.

Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's.

My parents were obsessed with my education.

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 was always a very good student.

I wasn't good at examinations, but I went to a very good secondary school - Bolton-on-Dearne - with wonderful teachers, who taught me drama and encouraged me in every way.

Academic achievement was something I'd always sought as a form of reward. Good grades pleased my parents, good grades pleased my teachers; you got them in order to sew up approval.

Competition among schools is always a great motivator.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and on the teachers.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.

I was a good student in school.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.