Sangram Singh Quotes

My older sister, Amy Jo, and I - we are the first generation of my family to stay on at school and do any exams at all.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

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

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

Education was something my parents always put a lot of emphasis on. It was naturally in me, and my sister is equally driven. She is a paediatric endocrinologist.

I always knew I wanted an educational background, and my mum and dad were quite big on that.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I was the daughter of teachers, so school was always very important. I liked it.

My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that.

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

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.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.