College Quotes

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

Women's property has been taxed, equally with that of men's, to sustain colleges endowed by the states; but they have not been permitted to enter those high seminaries of learning.

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

Always remember..... Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

You can learn more character on the two-yard line than anywhere else in life.

If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

College is fun as long as you don't die.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

Education should be a right, not a privilege. We need a revolution in the way that the United States funds higher education.

[The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.

I dropped out of college my junior year to do saturday night live, and I didn't even consult my parents. They were very supportive because they had no choice.

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

No policy has proved more successful in making friends for the United States, during the cold war and since, than educating students from abroad at our colleges and universities.

I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

Three things can happen when you throw the ball, and two of them are bad.

We did have three go to the YMCA.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

i had no idea what i wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.

Lads, you're not to miss practice unless your parents died or you died.

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

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

I wish I could have skipped college.

I was an English major in college!

He particularly liked about making students safe for ideas, not ideas safe for students.

I could never muster the courage to speak to girls in my college in Pune. Most of them were Parsis and spoke English. I came from a village and could barely converse in English.

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

The first question [American college kids] asked me was, 'What state is Kuwait in?' They thought Kuwait was in America.

And during my college, at the end of the junior year I worked in a mine.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

My boyfriends going to college so I made him tattoo my name on his foot so I know he's mine

When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.

My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.