Alan Dershowitz Quotes

Education is an incredibly personal issue for me. If you're the first generation to go to college, sometimes you don't realize your potential until others point it out.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.

My family gave me the best in education.

It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.

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While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

My mom made sure all her kids went to college.

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

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

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing.

And, I think, as a kid, I had a strong motivation to do something of my life. And, I think that's the strongest motivation I really got. And, that came obviously from my parents and my grandparents.

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

No one in my family had ever even gone to college.

My undergraduate years at the University of Nebraska were a special time in my life: the combination of partying and intellectual awakening that is what the undergraduate years are supposed to be. I went to the university with the goal of becoming an engineer; I had no concept that one could pursue science as a career.

I guess I hit a point while I was in college when I realized I would have to do something with my life!

I didn't have any idea of what I was getting into by going away to college. And I was scared. I was scared of failing. I was scared of it not being for me because I was going to be one of the first people in my family to go off to college.

My parents believed in the power of education.

When we go out to the university, the professors always say, 'Tell these students about your five-year plan and your 10-year plan,' and I say, 'Gee, we're lucky if we have a year plan.'

My older brother bought textbooks and was able to teach himself enough to go to college. When I was 16, he returned and told me to do the same thing.

So, college was kind of the only option that I looked at, and I was fortunate to have great coaches when I was at UCLA. They helped me improve on and off the court.