Eli Broad Quotes

I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I could have stayed in college and still recorded. Isn't that something? The kids of today are doing it.

Access to a college degree is critical.

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

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

All of the great big men went to college at least two or three years. I think it's a big factor. I don't know if it will always work, but I think it's the best choice.

I never went to college - I barely got out of high school.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

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 was born knowing I had to go to college.

My mom never went to college, but for her own children, getting a great education was not an option.

It never even crossed my mind I wouldn't go to college.

I want to see kids go to college more.

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded me that I needed to go to college if I wanted to really make it in life.

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

Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

I applied to Yale, and I got in.

On 'Undeclared,' I was actually the only person who had gone to college. Here we are doing this college show, and no one had actually really been, and it was so bizarre to me.

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

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

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.