College Quotes

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

I played baseball in college but I didn't identify with the jocks, I was in my own little world .

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

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.

I remember saying in college that I would never do commercials.

I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

Do you realize that if we could increase just by 50 percent the number of adults who have a college degree, it would add $5 billion to the economy and it would result in a net income to the state of Arkansas of $340 million a year?

I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over so I can finally paint full time.

The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day.

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!

An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

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

I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every dad loves to hear. And he said, 'I want you to go to college.' So we had a discussion. And I'm pretty stubborn. I'm a lot like him. And he said, 'If you go to college and graduate, I'll pay your first six months of rent in Nashville.' So he bribed me.

Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.