My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Education was the most important value in our home when I was growing up. People don't always realize that my parents shared a sense of intellectual curiosity and a love of reading and of history.
The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
What my parents believed was that, you know, the best wealth they could give to us children was to educate us and, you know - give us that foundation.
When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
All the money my mom spent on lessons paid off.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
I was blessed to have a mother and father that recognized the value of education.
The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went to piano, ballet and gymnastics lessons, and tae kwon do.
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