Cain Velasquez Quotes

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.

My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

School is very important to my family.

I'm from an Indian family of professionals, and my parents had to go through hardships themselves to send me to IIT-Mumbai.

My father was really good with math. It's a funny thing, I don't remember my father or my mother being so mechanical-minded. My father always wanted to be a doctor, but he came from a really poor family in Georgia, and there was no way he was going to be a doctor.

Mum was an absolutely determined woman. She was determined I would have a good education, and they went without all sorts of things to ensure it.

My mom grew up in poverty in Oklahoma - like Dust Bowl, nine people in one room kind of place - and the way she got out of poverty was through education. My dad grew up without a dad, with very little and he also made his way out through education.

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.

Luckily my parents were not against my ambition, they've always been very supportive. But they were adamant that I went to university first.

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.

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

My parents always made education and school the number one priority. They believed that an education is the best gift you can give to your child.

My parents came from a poor background and worked their way up because of education. They saw it as a way to succeed. So they cared about me getting straight A grades when I was growing up.

Why am I the first Kinnock in a thousand generations to be able to get to university?

The Scholastic Aptitude Tests do not predict success any better than the socio economic status of the parents.

My mother never finished elementary school. My father didn't, and that was a reality for many of us.

My mother fiercely valued education. She entered college the same year I did, in 1979, and graduated eight years later. She was a remarkable role model for all of us.

My elder brother is a lecturer in a college in Haryana, and my eldest sister was a teacher. I feel they are more educated than I am. I, too, used to dream of becoming a teacher.

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

My mom made sure all her kids went to college.

My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

I grew up in a household that was a labor household. My dad was a Teamster and a milk truck driver. My mother was a secretary. Neither of them got through high school. But they worked hard and they gave me very, very important opportunities to go to school, get a good education.