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Quotes About Campus

Once, when we were walking together on a campus outside the city, a chipmunk zipped across our path and dove into a hole at the base of an oak tree. "Oh, look at that," she said. "Just like Walt Disney.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Campuses should be places where students are able to make mistakes without fear of retribution. If there is no margin for error, it is impossible to receive a meaningful education.
~ Kirsten Powers
When you're on campus, you go through a lot of hard times and you need someone to talk to.
~ O. J. Mayo
Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.
~ Ryan Fitzpatrick
nothing from the summer carries more lasting allure for me than the memory of sitting with Ruth on the bank of a stream on campus, taking turns reading aloud from the books we held on our laps, while the wind wet leaves gossiping in the old trees above us and the creek rustled in its stony bed.
~ Scott Russell Sanders
Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there.
~ Marc Maron
I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.
~ Whitfield Diffie
studies course, so they can take me for the beginning of the next term." "What about Thomas?" "There's a nursery on campus. We
~ Jojo Moyes
Almost one in five students surveyed in a 2017 Brookings Institution study agreed that using violence to prevent a speaker from speaking was sometimes "acceptable.
~ Jonathan Haidt
I was in the ROTC program. I remember once I was walking through campus and my instructor grabs me, and he's a real big guy, and yells, "It's been six weeks since I've seen you in camouflage class!" I said, "I'm getting good."
~ Emo Philips
College students are attacked with bias from the moment they step on campus until the time they leave it. The effect is devastating.
~ Ben Shapiro
Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.
~ Theodore Hesburgh
I listened to the students on campus in Plymouth, worried about their steadily deepening debts and how on earth they would ever escape them.
~ Charles Kennedy
I ended up going to Furman. The campus was beautiful. It was, like, one of the top 10 college campuses on the planet. And they had dropped a ton of money into their psychology program, and I already knew that's what I wanted to major in. I loved the people there; I very much felt at home.
~ Xavier Woods
The university campus was in the old part of town. The combination of water and stone creates a special, majestic atmosphere there. It's hard to be a sluggard under those circumstances, but I managed.
~ Sergei Dovlatov
The traditional university will surely be gone in fifty years, swept away by technology. Why pay huge fees to spend three years on one campus, earning the right to be paid not very much more in the real world than non-graduates, rather than putting together your own combination of online courses, marked and graded online, using the lectures of the best teachers in the field wherever they happen to be?
~ Matt Ridley
Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.
~ Maureen Corrigan
It's like moving-in day on a college campus, except a large percentage of the people involved are middle-aged, in suits, and, along with you, charged with running the most powerful nation on earth.
~ Barack Obama
Having this information readily available is necessary for you to begin the process of accessing your library's databases, either from on- or off-campus.
~ José L. Galvan
The committee's work is not about whether or how we should pay reparations. That was never the intent nor will the payment of reparations be the outcome. This is an effort designed to involve the campus community in a discovery of the meaning of our past.
~ Ruth J. Simmons
Usually on Sundays, I won't cook because I'll have dinner at my mom's. She's the provost of Mills College in Oakland and lives on campus. It's a very beautiful school in a very bad part of town.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
First and foremost, I'm a journalist. My business is the truth. Now, I happen to be other things, too - a pop-culture phenomenon, the most in-demand speaker on the campus lecture circuit, whatever.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
Walking across campus made me feel sad, and I thought to myself, I wasn't happy there. Then, after reading, we walked past Butler Library. It was dark, but the light inside illuminated the windows. Students were reading and working, and those lit windows gave me a wonderful, weightless feeling. I understood for the first time how happy I had been there - in the library.
~ Siri Hustvedt
The discovery of a corpse's head on campus has worked as an expedient in getting the administrative staff to work before ten, despite the impending blizzard.
~ Meg Cabot