College Quote by Thomas Chatterton Williams

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

— Jim Gaffigan

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

— Larry Elder

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

My father worked road construction, and I worked my way through college doing road construction. I was the first male in my family to…

— Bill Hagerty

I was the first in my family to go to college.

— Bob Menendez

I was first in my family to go to college.

— Joe Biden

My father was born in the year 1900 in South Carolina, and he grew up at a time where being an African-American child in…

— Kenneth Frazier

My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.

— James Earl Jones

My father was raised with brothers, he was a football player and a boxer, he was a chief petty officer in the Navy, he…

— Hillary Clinton

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

— Joe Lhota

My dad was just a little trailer trash white dude that worked his tail off, didn't have a dad. He started working at 14,…

— Julian Edelman

My father's side of the family was very active in education.

— Sal Khan