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Quotes About University

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.
~ Mitch Kapor
I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.
~ Ruth J. Simmons
Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.
~ Michael N. Castle
And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.
~ Betty Hill
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
~ Tom Hicks
My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.
~ George Woodcock
Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.
~ Josh Schwartz
Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.
~ Anne Campbell
I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.
~ Richard Ernst
When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.
~ Andrea Mitchell
I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.
~ Shelley Berman
The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.
~ Lawrence R. Klein
I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.
~ Paul Nurse
One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
~ Jack Youngblood
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
~ Quincy Jones
The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.
~ Paul D. Boyer
When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
~ Victoria Pratt
I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.
~ Samuel Wilson
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
~ Beth Henley
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
~ James Henry Breasted
For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.
~ Mary Augusta Ward
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
~ Lisa Loeb
Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
~ Anthony Holden