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I was the first in my family to graduate college.


Duke Johnson
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Patrick J. Kennedy
Tags: Age Only Children
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.


Taslima Nasrin
John F. Kennedy brought style and charisma to the White House and a first family that captivated the country: a handsome, witty president, an elegant first lady, and two adorable young children.
Kitty Kelley
Tags: Family First Two
I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, 'My boy's got learnin'!'
Robin Williams
Tags: Got Said Father
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.
Robert Dallek
Tags: Medical Out Had
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My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.


Bob Gunton
When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
Victor LaValle
Tags: Had Would First
'Xyle XY' follows this boy who is like a newborn to the world - everything he sees and experiences is for the first time. He travels into the city and ends up getting put up by this foster family.
Matt Dallas
Tags: Time Family Like
Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
Gail Collins
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
Willie Mays
You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
Gil Scott-Heron
Tags: You People Me
The Skakel family, when they married into the Kennedys, was so wealthy, they could have purchased the Kennedy family.
Mark Fuhrman
For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.
Derek Bok
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While at college, I did my first lead on a network TV show, Medic.


Robert Vaughn
Tags: First Did Show
I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy.
Luke Evans
Tags: Best Family Come
I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.
Freeman A. Hrabowski III
It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.
Vin Diesel
Tags: First Got Until
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The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.


Jackie Kennedy
Tags: Time Money You
I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.
Gene Luen Yang