Childhood Quote by Ellen Greene

When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that was a…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

Growing up, I didn't ever think I was going to go to college because, financially, my parents just couldn't handle it.

— Dawn Staley

I was very lucky: a lot of people go through the college system not knowing what they want to do. Thankfully my parents were…

— Henry Golding

I'd announced when I was 13 that I wanted to go to New York instead of college - that was quite a disaster, but…

— Ann Reinking

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

— Jack Ramsay

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

— Tatyana Ali

My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school.…

— Steve Jobs

For me, picking a college was really difficult. I wish I had had my parents there kind of supervising me. But I chose well.…

— Diane Guerrero

My parents always wanted me to go to college.

— Chance The Rapper

For me, at least with my parents, I feel that they wanted me to have all the opportunities that they did not have, and…

— Franchesca Ramsey

My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.

— Jack Davenport

My mom had always been big on education. She was the first woman in our family to go to college, and she often reminded…

— Lecrae