Camila Mendes Quotes

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

Access to a college degree is critical.

With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

I can always go back to education.

If anything goes wrong, it's important to have your education to fall back on.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.

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.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

I don't have a college degree.

I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out.

As far as I can see, about the only thing I've missed is a college education.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

I graduated from college in 1980.