High school Quote by Marc Veasey

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 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 mom was a beautician in her early days, and then my parents decided that one of them needed to go to school in…

— Julie Sweet

I was born to a single mom and raised by her and my grandparents.

— Anthony Foxx

My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped…

— Ice T

I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

— Harry Mathews

I was very young when my parents separated, and later, my mother remarried.

— Ishaan Khatter

I became a wife at 15 and was a mother of two at 18.

— Dimple Kapadia

In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents,…

— Dan Hill

My mother raised me herself, along with my six younger siblings, in Cleveland, and life wasn't easy even in the best of times. At…

— Nina Turner

My mother remarried when I was young, and my stepfather adopted me.

— Steven Van Zandt

My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty,…

— Jill Lepore