College Quotes

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back...

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should neve...

College mostly makes people like bladders—just good for nothing but t’ hold the stuff as is poured i...

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

I was going to go to a four-year college and be an anthropologist or to an art school and be an illu...

Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks...

Being graded for memorizing male accomplishments with the deep message that we can learn what others...

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked prin...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I fe...

There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed ...

The habit of looking at life as a social relation — an affair of society — did no good. It cultivate...

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports t...

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies...

I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—th...

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to...

When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little g...

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was...

In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment...

Every new startup business creates new opportunities. It doesn't matter whether you have a new app f...

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a h...

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read t...

Computer mistake in grade-giving resulted in academic failure of several brilliant students. After s...

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

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high...

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make ...

Et supper?" Foote asked."No, sir," Stoner answered.Mrs. Foote crooked an index finger at him and pad...

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college exp...

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experi...

Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don'...

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, ...

I entered the literary world, really, from outside. My entire background has been in sciences; I was...

You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excel...

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Adverti...

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the gi...

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the ...

Life is my college. May I graduate well and earn some honors!

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't ...

I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too muc...

What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college...

I can't say it enough that learning how to learn is one of the greatest skills anyone can have. It's...

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I...

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea ...

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro ...

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some p...

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance...

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't us...

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Bec...

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowin...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long va...

My dad was phenomenal. Born in Mexico, lived poor, didn't graduate from college, and becomes head of...

Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on for...

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was f...

That's what I don't like about college, by the way. It's like a lot of people don't believe these ye...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You're sure your new roommate won't be like the last one who wore tinfoil socks and had a tendency t...

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at f...

In my parents' day and age, it used to be the person who fell short. Now it's the discipline. Readin...

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuni...

I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play...

You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always t...

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always t...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than ...

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than ...

The style of flirtation specific to classrooms was of service to the students all their lives.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of...

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

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

I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, ...

It is good for a student to be poor. Getting and spending, the typical American college student lays...

In many college classes, laptops depict split screens - notes from a class, and then a range of para...

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being ...

Everybody in my family had a real sick, twisted sense of humor. Most of the jokes we make in our hou...

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fi...

College was for people who didn’t know they were smart.

When I was in college, I really liked poetry. I don't read much anymore.

Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college,...

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vice...

Schools and universities are (as in a body) the noble and vital parts, which being vigorous and soun...

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a t...

You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a g...

The faces of your young people in general are not interesting—I don't mean the children, but the you...

When describing the University of Virginia: Here, We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may ...

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go...

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going int...