University Quotes

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

If you teach three university courses a day, you need something to turn your mind off.

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Personally I am in favour of education but a university is not the place for it.

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world, which is kind of quite scary.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

Credentialing, not education, has become the primary business of North American universities.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

University is a wonderful opportunity to find out not just much more about the world, but much more about yourself, too.

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful