A Quote by Ellie Goulding

I was the first person to go to university from my family.

Ellie Goulding

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Ellie Goulding
English - Musician
Born: December 30, 1986

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

Fiona Bruce

As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.

Clive Granger

Now we have this idea that, not only do you go to first grade to learn your family's language, but you go to a university to learn about the person you were before you left home.

Richard Rodriguez

I was the first and only person in my family to go to university, and I spent two decades redesigning myself: even my voice is the product of elocution lessons.

M. J. Hyland

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

Esther McVey

I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

Gail Bradbrook

My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.

Joe Wicks

Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.

Angela Rayner

At University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, I was one of the first Blacks there. I didn't go to a Black school until my junior year of college, when I went to Fisk University.

Mathew Knowles

I'm the first person in my family to go to college.

Jessica Chastain

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He flew from Nigeria to Los Angeles in the '70s to go to UCLA, where he met my mother. They broke up before I was born, and he returned to Nigeria.

Kehinde Wiley

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Trevor Nunn

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

Jo Cox

I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.

Alan Dershowitz

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a retired policeman, and my mom works for a glass-processing company. She is health-and-safety manager, and my stepfather is a plumber. I have four half siblings, one from my mom's marriage and three from my dad's marriage, so we are kind of scattered.

Samantha Shannon

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