College Quotes

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

If I weren't playing baseball, I would be a radio or sports broadcaster. In college at South Carolina I did some stuff with the radio station and really liked it.

I majored in Psychology in college. I was going to be a child psychologist.

I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, "My boy's got learnin'!"

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard. I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

I.B.M. was my college education, effectively. They were very good at teaching you management.

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

All this stuff is kind of surreal to me - Ididn't think I'd be in the league or none of that. It was making it to college. That's about it.

I'd like to see college debt levels drop by a lot, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to do that is.

It's unexpected for women's issues to be brought up in places other than women's centers on college campuses or crisis places.

I never thought that someone would be teaching one of my fanzines. I never thought I'd be off to lecture at a college. It's still shocking to me.

I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

Say what you will about zombies and their hygeine issues,at least they kill you fast.College acceptance boards? They like to draw out the torment as long as possible.

I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

Economics in college was very poor; I was not very impressed with it. I actually wanted to study statistics. I discovered mathematical statistics as an undergraduate and was fascinated with it.