Quotes About Opportunity

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

I'm from a lower middle class background; all my family were immigrants.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

That is the heart and soul of the American dream, homeownership, the idea of being able to buy a house and start to build your family.

Education can change the scope of an entire family

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

I was first in my family to go to college.

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.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

We feel really blessed to have been asked to come here, and to have the opportunity for our family to be able to look into the eyes of these people, and in some way help.

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.

My fervent hope is that it would be possible for me and my family to leave for the U.S. on Hillary Clinton's plane.

My parents went through hell and back. They came to America with suitcases and a family of seven and $250, and that's it.

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

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

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

I was raised in a family where my father was the first one to go to college.

I was the first one in my family to go to college.

I always say that No Ordinary Family was the show that should've been.

I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think. We were on the Métro in Paris on a family holiday, and somebody came up to me and asked me to be a model, and that's how it started.

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.