College Quotes

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...

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be i...

That's not the end of the world! This is the time to cut loose! To really learn about everything! To...

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth se...

When I give speeches at college, I don't tell stories, I talk about what it is to live your dreams a...

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

This irritated or puzzled such students of literature and their professors as were accustomed to ‘se...

A first-rate college library with a comfortable campus around it is a fine milieu for a writer. Ther...

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities o...

And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. A...

I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so sm...

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants t...

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at fi...

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

I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd ...

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's C...

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the...

Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an educati...

In your temporary failure there is no evidence that you may not yet be a better scholar, and a more ...

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in...

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

As my friend said to me, when you have children, typically in a second marriage, when you're older a...

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but ...

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? ...

Outside the study hall the next fall, the fall of our senior year, the Nabisco plant baked sweet whi...

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from ...

You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the crim...

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the ci...

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of g...

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly...

In high school, I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say...

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary s...

Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.