Sonia Sotomayor Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Adversity, Simple, Financial Hardship

• When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Growing Up, Home, School

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

• An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Mother, Father, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

• I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Teacher, Self, Envy

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.135, Vintage

• The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Struggle, School, Poor Neighborhoods

  Interview with Anderson Cooper, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. March 7th, 2013.

• To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Children, School, Safety

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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