Carole Radziwill Quotes

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

I put myself through college.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

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

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.

I worked my way through law school.

I put myself through college playing pool.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

When I got into Yale College, got into Yale Law School. I've worked my tail off.

I went out to California; I was pursuing my degree in genetic engineering and civil law at U.C. Berkeley, and I had to pay my way through school. I eventually got a scholarship, which was great, but in the beginning, it was very hard.

I don't want anything handed to me, I want to work for everything I have... that's the way I've done everything in my life.

Nobody ever gave me anything. Everything I got I had to work for.

I am a granddaughter of immigrants, put myself through college as a waitress, and I started my career as a computer programmer.

It's very hard for students not to be in debt unless they've got big scholarships or rich parents. And it's called investing in your future, but like any investment it's risky because your future is an unknown quantity. However, if you don't invest in your future, you may be flipping hamburgers for the rest of your life. So it's a real dilemma.

I had school debt I had to pay off. Sometimes I would do commercials to get me through. And so I kept bumping along like that and learning different things. I knew I wanted to get out on my own. I was just super-curious, and I was a good listener. And that got me through.

No one ever taught me how to shave; no one ever sat down to watch a Braves game with me. I paid for Yale myself, I lived by myself, I taught myself how to play the guitar. I did this all on my own.

I really want to go to college.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.

Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.

I wasn't sheltered or spoiled. All the money I made, I made myself.