Careers Quote by Judy Woodruff

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

— Wendell Pierce

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My dad was an ironworker and my mom retired from our public schools.

— Ben Ray Lujan

I was a social studies teacher at a high school in the Bronx for five years.

— Charles Best

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

— Al Franken

My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued…

— Samuel Alito

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of…

— Spike Lee

Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.

— Laura Fraser

My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.

— Zooey Deschanel

My mother helped to integrate the local elementary school in the nineteen-sixties.

— Jesmyn Ward

My mother grew up in abject poverty in Mississippi, an elementary school dropout. Yet, with the support of women around her, she returned to…

— Stacey Abrams

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

— Nick Cave