A Quote by Maya Lin

My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.

Maya Lin

Quote Topics

Authority Both College College Professors Made Me Parents Professors Question Standards Traditions Want

Quote Author

Maya Lin
American - Architect
Born: October 5, 1959

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

Camryn Manheim

Most of these students are so conditioned to success that they become afraid to take risks. They have been taught from a young age by zealous parents, schools, and institutional authorities what constitutes failure and success. They are socialized to obey. They obsess over grades and seek to please professors, even if what professors teach is fatuous. The point is to get ahead, and getting ahead means deference to authority. Challenging authority is never a career advancer.

Chris Hedges

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

Chance The Rapper

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn't really know how to want a different kind of job.

Alexandra Kleeman

I am the child of Indian immigrants, both of whom have Ph.D.s and are college professors, and I'm an actor in Hollywood.

Tiya Sircar

If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.

Ann Coulter

All parents want their children to have respectable jobs that pay well. However, my parents are both open-minded and they respect the choice I made.

Zhao Wei

What many students most want from college, although they would never admit it, is an authority structure. There is a demand for an authority which they can then reject; they want to be told what to do, so they can disobey. It is a textbook case of bad faith, a flight from freedom.

Mark Fisher

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

Ken Xie

If I was a male, I had the right to, when I stepped out the door, take off my shirt. It's not right for the state to ask me to be both male and female. A choice needs to be made. They cannot hold me to both standards.

Andrea Jones

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

Linda McMahon

My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

Xavier Becerra

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

Dee Dee Myers

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Bill Maher

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

Steve Jobs

If you don't like the word 'religion,' you can replace it with 'ideology' - it's largely the same thing. At the heart of both religion and ideology is the question of authority and where authority is coming from.

Yuval Noah Harari

A Quote by Maya Lin

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors