Lori Petty Quotes

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.

It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect that our time will sustain itself if we don't do a better job on issues like education... It's absolutely the case that the low cost of college tuition that I was able to enjoy and the financial aid I was able to receive made my education possible.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

Where I came from, people couldn't afford to go to the theatre.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.

In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn't have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat.

You don't have to be impoverished to understand poverty.

I have a serious concern about middle-class families being able to afford college.

I did not grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth.

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

As a young single mum struggling to get by, I didn't get to go to university, but that level of debt would have been unimaginable.

I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.