Universities Quotes

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

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

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

Our universities and museums are respected around the country.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.