University Quotes

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

I got expelled from high school, and then did my exams from home. I decided, through that experience, that I was going to expediate my plan and didn't go to university. Instead, I went to a community college and studied the theory and history of film with the idea that I wanted to write and direct.

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

I believe that access to a university education should be based on the ability to learn, not what people can afford. I think there is no more nauseating a sight than politicians pulling up the ladder of opportunity behind them.

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.