Army Quote by Richard Carmona

My mother - neither one of my parents went to college. My mother, after her four children had grown up, went back and got…

— Tad Devine

Lucy Mercedes Martinez, my mother, was probably my first mentor. She really tried to take care of me in spite of myself, and in…

— Richard Carmona

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy…

— George Weinberg

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

My mother was a teacher, my father was a community organizer. I come from a working class background.

— Chris Hayes

Although raised on the farm - my grandfather was an unsuccessful fundamentalist preacher turned farmer - my father and his brother both became professors.

— Philip Warren Anderson

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

I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every…

— Barack Obama

My dad is a lifelong public servant; my mom was a public-school teacher - it's in my DNA.

— Ashley Biden

My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.

— Margaret Mead

My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to…

— Joe Wicks

My grandmother passed away before I could get to know her. She had an interest in films and writing. She wrote two novels under…

— Richa Chadha