College Quotes

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that.

My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad's union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege.

In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.

Krush Groove was a movie at the time. That was my first break. I just got to New York. I was right out of college and I was happy to have a job.

The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

I was tempted my junior year to go out of college and forgo my eligibility. I had broken several world records. I did have a lot of people telling me that I should go pro.

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

Community colleges provide higher education where people live, helping to build strong ladders of opportunity that allow people to secure a foothold in the middle class.

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry.

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.

I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

I never really took a proper art class in college. I just started reading art magazines and going to galleries.

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy.

I went to college in Mississippi; I'm from Louisiana.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!

When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.

Sometimes I do wonder what college would have been like. But I made my decision.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.