Constance Wu Quotes

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

My brother has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which I find so totally impressive.

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.

I come from a family of scholars who got their Master's degrees. To my grandma - and to a lot of people - an education was a way of making it out of the worst parts of their life.

College education is the engine of social mobility in this country.

I went to a prep school in Chicago, and my dad and mom worked really hard - even though we lived in the ghetto - to get me to there. A lot of it had to do with 'Stand and Deliver' and 'Dead Poet's Society.' It does help you. It inspires you. It definitely did for me.

I had been an academic all my life. As academics, you tend to believe the smartest people are in academia.

For generations of Hong Kongers, the only means of upward mobility and the only way to meaningfully contribute to society have been to obtain a respectable university degree (preferably in business administration) and a professional accreditation (in finance, accounting, law or medicine).

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

I broke the cycle of poverty thanks to education.

It was my dream to come to Oxford and study political science.

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.

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.

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.

There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

My parents were so proud when I got a scholarship to go to theatre school - it was unheard of that a coal-miner's son should go to drama school.

The best escalator to opportunity in America is education.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

When my parents met, my mother was a waitress and my father was a dockyard worker. They were part of that post-war better-yourself generation, so they both went to night school.

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

I studied at a university in Florence and finished my degree. My mother was very strict about this recipe: You need to get your degree.