Eldest son Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year,…

— Marc Veasey

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 grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was…

— Dick Gephardt

My mother worked for more than a decade before marrying. She went to New York City to get a master's degree. And she continued…

— Samuel Alito

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

My father left the family right after I was born, so my mother was working every single day to support me and my brothers.

— Gabriel Jesus

My mother lost her job, so I left school to work full-time to support her.

— Ayanna Pressley

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

— Powers Boothe

My mother worked in advertising and my father was a journalist. But they split up when I was three and I grew up in…

— Felicity Jones

My parents were in high school when I was born. My mom was 16, my dad was 17. They were kids, at the very…

— Mahershala Ali

Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing…

— Martin Lewis Perl