Katie Porter Quotes

I'm not saying everyone must go to college. What I'm saying is that every student in Texas, no matter how poor, deserves options. They must be taught to believe they can and will graduate from high school with grades good enough to succeed in trade school, in community college, or in any university in America, including Harvard, Yale, UT or A&M.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

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

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

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 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'!'

On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to her that I was to go to a drama college.

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 was the first in my family to go to college.

My parents were not at all involved in science. In fact, neither of them went to college.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

I never thought about college, but my mom thought about it for me. I knew 100 percent it wasn't for me.

It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.

I want to see kids go to college more.

When I grew up, I was just another kid who wasn't going to college.

My mom made sure all her kids went to college.

Nobody goes to college and learns anything.