College Quotes

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say...

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

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary s...

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anyt...

The last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination a...

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a goo...

What we have before us then, is three distinct purposes for a university: the commercial purpose (st...

Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of...

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our grou...

I realized I was a teacher when I felt warm during class and got up to open the door. Later on there...

One cannot get rid of a good education, nor, unfortunately, of a bad one, which often is such becaus...

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they w...

if you do not share the universities' values, it could be a big mistake to send your children to col...

My dad had been shortstop when he was in college, and you know, when you're a kid, you want to be ju...

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by ...

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it.

Most of us are pseudo-scholars...for we are a very large and quite a powerful class, eminent in Chur...

It is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - whi...

Never get married in college it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already...

When you think of intelligence, don't think of a college professor; think of human beings as opposed...

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Ignoring fame was my rebellion, in a funny way. I was insistent on being normal and doing normal thi...

It is a well known fact that Abraham Lincoln spent much of his spare time visiting wounded soldiers ...

Hey, Pedro, could you get your shopping cart out of my faculty parking space? Yes, I know you live o...

Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. ...

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union ...

The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to...

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back...

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should neve...

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured i...

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illu...

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks...

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked prin...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...

There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed ...

The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivate...

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports t...

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

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

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—th...

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to...

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little g...

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was...

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment...

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app f...

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a h...

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

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

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After s...

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high...

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make ...

Et supper?" Foote asked."No, sir," Stoner answered.Mrs. Foote crooked an index finger at him and pad...

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college exp...

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experi...

Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don'...

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, ...

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was...

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excel...

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Adverti...

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the gi...

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the ...

Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't ...

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college...

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's...

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I...

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea ...

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro ...

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance...

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

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Bec...

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowin...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of...

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on for...

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was f...

That's what I don't like about college, by the way. It's like a lot of people don't believe these ye...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency t...

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Readin...

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuni...

I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play...