Quotes About Growth

When I was nine, we moved to Stanford University in San Francisco so that my father could do a Ph.D. I went to Terman Junior High in Palo Alto. It was terrible, because my hormones were all over the place, and I became an ugly adolescent full of rage and loathing.

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I actually didn't mind school, and I enjoyed university and college.

I was a student at Peking University for close to a decade, while a so-called 'knowledge explosion' was rapidly expanding. I was searching for not just knowledge, but also to mold a temperament, to cultivate a scholarly outlook.

I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

I went to university and I was a bit out of my depth, socially.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.

After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading and writing. I also received degrees in London and Dublin - where I moved to be near a charming Irishman who became my husband!

I actually went to university.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.

When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world.

I feel like the experience I gained at university has really helped to inform me as far as who I wanted to become as an actor and what I wanted to do.

As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?

I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.