Trish Regan Quotes

I don't think that's a fair representation of life, that you have to go to college and do well to get anywhere.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Because I've never had any higher education of any sort, I've never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don't.

Education will become the coin of the realm.

Acting is not a thing where I'm from. Finishing school is a big thing. Not a lot of people finish school.

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.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

I wish I could have skipped college.

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

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

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

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

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

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'!'

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

A generation ago, it wasn't necessary to have a college degree to get into the middle class …

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

Too many people go 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.

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

I was the first in my family to go to college.