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My parents were marvelously educated people.

My parents grew up working class, but in that way that working class families do, they spent a fortune on education to better me.

I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

My parents found me very difficult to educate.

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.

I started life in a poor family and could not even afford a proper tertiary education.

My dad and mom did what a lot of parents did at the time. They sacrificed a lot of their life and used a lot of their disposable income to make sure their children were educated.

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

My parents did not pay a cent for my education; they didn't give me a car or furniture - I did that 100% on my own. I had to pay back a lot.