University Quotes

It is not that the university as such is against spiritual formation. It is just that often the university does not know how to integrate spiritual formation within its academic disciplines.

The best university is the university of life.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

I draw a contrast between American shared governance with "the dictatorship of ministries" wherein policy and direction for the university is ordered by bureaucrats who have never taught a class.

The task of building a great university is never simple.

My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.

At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

As all who come into the country must obey the King, so all who come into an university must be of the Church.

No state legislature ever built a great university.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are you on the horticultural course as well?

Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.

An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

A true university can never rest upon the will of one man. A true university always rests upon the wills of many divergent-minded old men, who refuse to be disturbed, but who growl in their kennels.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

There’s nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can’t learn in just one month on a local paper.

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.