Charles Joseph Bonaparte Quotes

I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

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

Our family story here is one that we're proud of, and that is that, as the ninth of 10 kids in our family, I was the first who, right out of high school, was able to go to four-year college... it was a big moment in our family's life.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

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?

Access to a college degree is critical.

I graduated from CUNY College of Staten Island with a 3.9 GPA in three and a half years.

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

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

I want my kids to graduate from high school. But that's not enough. I also want them to go to college. Why? Because rich people's kids go to college. And if that's good enough for them, it's good enough for my kids. Because you know what? College graduates don't tend to go to jail as frequently as nongraduates.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Nothing in a college education makes a girl either unfit for domestic obligations or masculine in her tastes..

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I graduated from Jones College, man, in Jacksonville, Florida, baby! I couldn't get in anywhere else, man. I was the worst student ever. I couldn't get in anywhere else. My father insisted I go to college, so I graduated, made the dean's list and everything.

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

Getting a degree from Duke University is an amazing accomplishment for me.

I graduated from University of Maryland, 1996 - or '97, actually.

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

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 got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.