Born Quote by Carl Sandburg

I was close with some of my old professors.

— Jon Tenney

The thing that was great about San Jose State was, I got connected with some very good professors.

— Brian Krzanich

I was a professor for 20 years, 12 of those at Emory University.

— Kevin Young

I remember a good friend of mine whose father worked at Bethlehem Steel for 40 years with just a high school degree. That was…

— Tom Perez

It turns out one of my dad's best friends was Carl Sagan when I was little. They were both Harvard professors.

— David Grinspoon

My dad worked for a generator company and then UC Berkeley, and my mom was as a dental hygienist and then eventually a history…

— Cary Fukunaga

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

— Richard Ernst

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as…

— Maya Lin

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

— J. Philippe Rushton

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

— Wendell Pierce

When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San…

— Johnny Mathis

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

— Philip Warren Anderson