Julian Bond Quotes

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

I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Never say 'I went to Harvard.' Say 'I schooled in the Boston area.'

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

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.

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

I'm married to a dear little girl who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded.

My mother taught public school, went to Harvard and then got her master's there and taught fifth and sixth grade in a public school. My dad had a more working-class lifestyle. He didn't go to college. He was an auto mechanic and a bartender and a janitor at Harvard.

All four of my grandparents were educators, my mom was a school nurse, and I went through the public school system.

My dad went to USC and it always had been very important to me and my family.

For me specifically, it was important to graduate. In my family, I was one of the first graduates. My mom did not have a college degree. My dad did not have a college degree.

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

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

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

I come from a background that stresses education more than anything.

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

I don't care where you went to school. There - have I made your day? No? All right, I'll go further: I also don't care what your dad did for a living or how your mum voted. Nor do I mind whether you ate your tea in front of the telly, dinner at the kitchen table, or supper in the dining room.

I wasn't a great student. My brother is 18 months older than me, so he sort of forged the way for me at school.