“Thankfully, I was able to go to Marquette University and get my education, a Catholic education, so I could please my family, because I think they wanted me to be a priest.” ThinkingAbleWantedPleaseMy FamilyCatholicUniversityPriestsCatholic Education Author:Danny Pudi
“I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.” LongTeachLong TimeMy FamilyWesternUniversityLandscapeRegionsCarolinaNorth Carolina Author:Ron Rash
“My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.” FirstsHomeTermSonProtectTenMy FamilyInstinctUniversityPrivacySundayMy SonMailAway From HomeProtect My Family Author:Cherie Blair
“I was brought up in a very naval, military, and conservative background. My father and his friends had very typical opinions of the British middle class - lower-middle class actually - after the war. My father broke into the middle class by joining the navy. I was the first member of my family ever to go to private school or even to university. So, the armed forces had been upward mobility for him.” FirstsWarSchoolFatherForceOpinionClassMiddleMilitaryMembersMy FamilyUniversityConservativeBritishBackgroundsBrokeMiddle ClassTypicalNavyJoiningArmed ForcesMobilityNavalPrivate SchoolUpward Mobility Author:Christopher Hitchens
“I must admit that outside the university, it is difficult to be a pure mathematician. No one in my family understands what I do. My neighbors wonder why I spend all my time in my study scribbling with pencil on a yellow pad of paper instead of going outside to mow the lawn.” DifficultWonderStudyPurePaperMy FamilyUniversityNeighborMy TimeYellowMathematicianPencilsLawnsPads Author:Isadore Singer
“I started working myself from about 14, really, so I wasn't a burden on my family. I did a paper round and a milk round. When I was 15 or 16, I worked in a supermarket on Saturdays stacking shelves, and then every summer I temped, right through university until my working days started.” PaperSummerMy FamilyRoundsUniversityBurdenMilkShelvesSaturdaySupermarketsStacking Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.” MadeReasonAbleSacrificeMy FamilyUniversity Author:Michael Gove
“I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?” KnowsMy FamilyCatholicUniversityAlcoholismSt PatrickSt Patrick's Day Author:Jim Gaffigan
“My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place.” WorldWarSeemsYoungParentDadMy FamilyUniversityMy DadFolksNuclearBrownTravelerCousinExplosionsBrown University Author:Bruce Springsteen