College graduates Quote by Leana S. Wen

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early…

— Tess Gerritsen

I am very proud of my mother - she is one of the greatest influences in my life.

— Lydia Hearst

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable…

— Tom Perez

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

— Amy Tan

My mother was a very amazing woman. She was a very strong, remarkable woman.

— Tina Knowles

My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She…

— H. Robert Horvitz

She worked hard till she saw all of us through college and we became independent. I never knew that my mother had such a…

— Chanda Kochhar

My mother was ahead of her time as a woman.

— Sandra Bullock

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the…

— Samuel Alito

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her…

— Angelina Jolie

[My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but…

— Harry Connick, Jr

I am a first-generation American of Chinese decent. My parents were both born and raised in China and moved to the U.S. in their…

— Nathan Chen