Mark Wahlberg Quotes

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

By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much do school principals make a month?

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

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

I'm not terribly intelligent - I have no university degree, you know.

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.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.

I didn't have the luxury of going to the four year school for acting.

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

In Britain, the idea one could go from blue-collar beginnings to the university was so far out, it was quite unthinkable. I took a variety of jobs to pay for tuition - from ice-cream salesman to night-club bouncer. Whatever earned the most money in the least time.

To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

My parents didn't make a lot of money. My dad was not a high school graduate - he didn't have a career as such; he was a printing salesman essentially for most of his working life.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

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 went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don't have the means.

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

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

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I got my GED my senior year and ended up taking community college classes before I transferred to Bard.