College Quotes

I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think I had envisioned becoming a professor at the time. I remained a history major until 1951.

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.

Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.

College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

Everyone who went to college and especially people working in media seem to know at least one person from Shaker Heights. There's just something about that place that made people go to the coast.

I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.

I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.

I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.

I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

There is also a beast, a beast of strange dimensions. He has the head of a horse and the body of a man who needs a lot of attention. He represents me in college: I was a dork-ataur.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

Jean Valentine and Jane Cooper were my professors at Sarah Lawrence College - and they were uncompromised in their art. They gave me models of how to live one's life as a poet.

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

In colleges throughout America, students are taught to have disdain for the white race. I know this sounds incredible, or at least exaggerated. It is neither.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

Even through my college years, I was trying out plays and shows, but I never really thought it made much sense to try to be an actor. I thought it was foolish, really.

I'm trying to go through the whole process of high school to college to work.

In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.

It was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.

I was raised in a working class family of Baptist faith, and I went to college on a church scholarship where early teachings were reinforced. Abortion was wrong, I was taught.

I went to Midwood High School in Brooklyn and then to Brooklyn college for 1 1/2 years.

First and foremost one, I was never planning on doing this as a long term, so Spooky, I was in college... It was a fun name. I thought it was you know just a fun thing

Since the beginning, the people of the college and I have agreed that the music of MerleFest is 'traditional plus.'

People like bluegrass. It's had a following amongst a lot of hip and young people. A lot of college kids like bluegrass.

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college.

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth.

I believe colleges should not be allowed to benefit from unlimited federal largesse while taking advantage of students.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

I love coaching. I would probably be coaching. I would work in athletes and work with the youth. I would maybe do personal development and athletics. I would coach in high school or college.

After high school and a year of College I made a half-hearted attempt at professional skiing in Aspen, Colorado and then found myself back in Flint.

Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.

You know, this is what I've always thought a college should look like.

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with.

I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

I wrote comedy sketches in college.

I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.

Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.

In college, I was a weather anchor for the local news. I would 'borrow' my forecast from The Weather Channel.