College Quotes

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

I was known around the college for jamming in the lounge.

I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.

I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known.

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again.

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

I graduated from college in 1980.

I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

I had a lot of friends in high school and in college, and we had a good time.

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.

I went to college for four years.

Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.