Brother Quote by Liz Kendall

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

— Jo Cox

By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as…

— Claire Tomalin

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself…

— Patrick White

Growing up I had amazing parents who really let me be creative and free. I was the youngest of three by six years, the…

— Julie Taymor

I got a PhD from Harvard and a few years later, there was a girl from Sunderland who hadn't got into Oxford or Cambridge,…

— Fiona Hill

I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And…

— Walter Kirn

My childhood was epitomized by my parents who were uneducated but had a doctorate in love. My dad pressed coats and through my mom…

— Dick Vitale

I wanted to go to university and experience something that I felt like I'd missed. I wanted to be around bright, intelligent young people…

— Yasmin Paige

Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where…

— Michelle Obama

College was the first time I felt I really had to choose who my friends were.

— Daveed Diggs

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

— Burt Bacharach

I know the pride that my whole community had when I got into Harvard. It was as if we had just discovered like a…

— Ruben Gallego