Jose Manuel Barroso Quotes

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

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

My father was an academic, an eccentric. He was a lecturer.

My mother was a professor of English and History.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

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

The family's dream was to see me receive a high degree abroad and to return to become a university professor - on the door to my study room, a sign was placed reading 'Dr. Ahmed,' even though I was still far from becoming a doctor.

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

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.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

I'm a child of academics.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

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

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

And I finished college because I thought how much it would upset my parents if I didn't.

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

I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.

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.

My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

My family are not sporty - they are all doctors or lawyers.

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.