Barbara Lynn Quotes

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.

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.

I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.'

My parents had an old-fashioned ideal of college, that four years at a liberal arts college should be a liberal arts education.

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.

I was born knowing I had to go to college.

My parents tried to convince me that school won't always be there, but auditions will. I said, 'Really? Are they tearing down NYU?'

All of the great big men went to college at least two or three years. I think it's a big factor. I don't know if it will always work, but I think it's the best choice.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

I think, from every actor I've ever spoken to, they say the biggest thing they regret from life is not finishing school.

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.