College Quotes

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?

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

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

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

I was a much better writer than I was an athlete. My college coach told me flat out, he said, "Deford, you write basketball better than you play it."

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

I smoked with a lot of college students... Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

They whipped us like a tied up goat.

I hated school. After 15, you went off to college if you were good enough. It didn't appeal to me so I left school. I did what everybody did - get a job.

The only educational aspect of television is that it puts the repair man's kids through college.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

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

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

According to a study by Achieve Incorporated, Texas is the first state to make a college-prep curriculum the standard coursework in high school, starting with this year's ninth grade class.

This is Reagan country. Yeah! And perhaps it was destiny that the man who went to California's Eureka College would become so woven within and interlinked to the Golden State.

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

There is no college for the conscience.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should.

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

If you're a white kid growing up and you see a Black player and he's got the name of your college or your town across his chest, that means something.

In the world of entrepreneurs, you don't need a college education. You need a proper education.

Winning teams at the NBA level, the college level, and the high school level all play team basketball. Championship teams have five players on the same page at all times.

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

Go build it. If you really believe in something, you should just build it. If you love it, it won’t feel like work. It’s okay to drop out of college if you have an awesome idea.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

People high in conscientiousness get better grades in high school and college; they commit fewer crimes; and they stay married longer.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

I was at college doing performing arts, and just spending all my time mucking about, and the lecturers thought I would be pretty good at stand-up, so I gave it a whirl.

School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.

Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.

I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?