Quotes About Opportunity

We aspire to be equal opportunity, but all across the country where a student is born, their race, their class affect where they end up.

My daughter was never offered 'Student Of The Year 2.'

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

I'm not just a dumb basketball player who got lucky and graduated from college. My ratio for professor to student was nine-to-one so it wasn't like I wasn't going to class. I was going to class every day.

I really didn't get to experience college. I enjoyed Ohio State, but I didn't feel like I had a chance to live the college life. When some guys got bored, they went out partying or to the student center. When I got bored, I went to the gym.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.

I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.

Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable.

I did a lot of student acting when I was young.

A student who has excelled in the classroom should have the opportunity to attend college and become a productive, taxpaying member of society.

I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

Access to high-quality education is way too limited. The United States has the world's most admirable higher education system, and yet it is very restrictive. It's so hard to get into. I never got into it as a student.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

The nice thing about student drama is that you're allowed to get things wrong, because it doesn't mean no one will ever hire you again.

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.

The difference between the National Football League and college is this: In college, you are a broke college student.

I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor among others in achieving a diverse student body.

For millions of Americans, federally subsidized student loans and Pell Grants are an important resource for us to get ahead so we can achieve the American dream.

I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.

My parents are not of this world. I've had to work multiple jobs, been in a position where I cannot pay off student loans.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

The higher the social class of other students the higher any given student's achievement.