Miranda Cosgrove Quotes

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.

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 went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

I went to Brooklyn College as an education major. It was a big deal in the family, but really, I was living for Mom and Dad.

My family means different things to different folks. I think, for most people, they have very fond memories and believe my family made important contributions to the country.

St. John's University has meant so much to me and my family.

Getting that degree is something that is very important to me and my family.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

Arthur is my middle name; George is my dad's middle name.

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.d. 's in science or engineering, and it was taken for granted that the next generation of Chu's were to follow the family tradition. When the dust had settled, my two brothers and four cousins collected three MDs, four Ph.d. s and a law degree. I could manage only a single advanced degree.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

I know I haven't been the greatest student, but I do intend to get my degree. Otherwise, my mother will kill me.

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

The ticket out of the Depression was an education, a college degree. It really didn't matter if you knew anything. You just had to have the degree. My dad, up until the last two years of his life, thought he had failed miserably with me 'cause I didn't go to college. I mean, you've seen postgame interviews with the star of the game and the players always talk about how proud his parents are because he's the first guy in his family ever to attend college. I'm the first in my family not to! I'm the first of my family not to have a degree. It's thrown everybody for a loop.

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

I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

I went to basic school for 10 years, and then I went to college.

I'm the product of my parents' dreams and aspirations.

I respect and admire my family, but they've never expected me to walk in their footsteps.

Everybody in my family is very well educated. I'm probably the only one who is not a double post graduate.

I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.