Alan Shepard Quotes

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.

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

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

We need to deal with helping middle-class kids get a college education.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

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

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

When I - when I was going to school, I knew how to read, write, add and subtract and I - I basically said, 'What else do I need? I'm never going to be able to go to college. I'm not going to be able to afford to go to college. I'm not going to be able to get a scholarship.'

I was definitely planning to go to college, but I deferred my admission to Carnegie Mellon to be in a non-equity tour of 'The Sound of Music.' But I made very little money in the tour, and college is really expensive, and I thought I'd never be able to pay off those loans.

I want to see kids go to college more.

I was telling some of my friends that I really wish college did pay because then you have an opportunity to have fun in college and enjoy college life and have a comfortable living.

Sometimes life limits your choices - rising tuition costs may put university out of reach, or like me, personal circumstances might simply make it difficult to complete your education.

As a first-generation college student who worked my way through community college on to Cornell Law, having health insurance was not a top priority when I was starting out. I was buried in student loan debt and worried about simply making ends meet.

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.