Cities Quote by Marilyn Hacker

My mother was a teacher.

— Hugh Grant

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

— Wendell Pierce

My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician,…

— Greg Iles

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

— Al Franken

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 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

I had two parents who were doctors, and my mom was valedictorian in multiple classes.

— John T. Chambers

When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and…

— Sheryl Sandberg

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

— Gordon Bell

It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor.

— Nelson Mandela

My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt.

— Lorna Luft

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the…

— John W. Rogers, Jr