Elizabeth McGovern Quotes

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

My mother was a professor of English and History.

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

I did go to university and I did teach school for a year.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

A professorship appeals very much because I enjoy being with younger people.

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.

I would have liked to have been a professor of sociology.

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

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.

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

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've always been a writer because I've always been a student. My mom's a retired professor, so I come from a very academic background. I love writing, you know?

I'm a child of academics.

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

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.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.