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Quotes About University

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.
~ Michael N. Castle
I started doing little amateur nights at the comedy club that was right next to the restaurant that I waitressed in when I was in university. I was probably 22 years old. I didn't do it with any intention of making a career out of it; I had just always valued comedy.
~ Katherine Ryan
Speech codes may well increase tension and edginess rather than relieve them. A student at the State University of New York at Binghamton complains that "If you look at someone funny, it's a bias incident."137
~ Jared Taylor
Yliopistoihminen: liukas ja pinnallinen, saisi paikan talvisena jalkakäytävänä.
~ Jarkko Laine
The politics that enter the university are those that come from history, a retro politics, emptied of substance and legalized in their superficial exercise.
~ Jean Baudrillard
La politique qui entre à l'université est celle qui sort de l'histoire, c'est une politique rétro, vidée de sa substance et légalisée dans son exercice superficiel, aire de jeu et terrain d'aventure (…)
~ Jean Baudrillard
the truth is no road to fortune, and the populace doesn't give out ambassadorships, university chairs, or pensions.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To talk about the reality of life here and the work that you do here at the university.
~ Robert Pinsky
My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.
~ Kenneth G. Wilson
I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.
~ Adrienne Rich
I am interested in recent scholarly work examining the emergence of women's studies and ethnic studies departments and the development of the neoliberal university.
~ Dean Spade
For nearly five years, I worked with Marquette University Law School and helped to administrate a community crime prevention initiative called Safe Streets. We used restorative justice practices to help reduce crime and violence in the Milwaukee community.
~ Ron Johnson
Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.
~ Mark Walport
In terms of my childhood, it was normal. You go through school, do well in school, and then I went to university. The performance arts aspect was never really an option because it was never in my family. Nobody was there to teach me anything about that. It wasn't until maybe my second year of university that I got inspired to dance.
~ Manny Jacinto
I was only looking at a few schools and narrowed it down to the University of Oregon. Having a great choice made me more excited and I knew it would be a great opportunity.
~ Mary Cain
Leaders of organizations with leftist ideologies should not be allowed to enter Panjab University.
~ Kirron Kher
I went to university for three years, but I wasn't in Ottawa for three years.
~ Rob Ford
It's a hard process to navigate... to figure out where your kid ought to go to college.
~ Margaret Spellings
Deloitte University is really about leadership development. Our people love it!
~ Cathy Engelbert
Any time there was a break from university I'd be doing some kind of outdoor job.
~ Gethin Jones
In 1215, a statute was promulgated in the name of the pope, legally affirming the independence of Paris' university from the bishop. A year earlier, a similar measure had established the legal status of the colleges that, over the preceding decades, had begun to appear in the English town of Oxford. Universities were soon mushrooming across Christendom. Not merely tolerated, the methods of enquiry pioneered by Abelard had been institutionalised.
~ Tom Holland
While at the university, Eder lived in bachelor's quarters together with his cousin, the well-known writer Israel Zangwill. A Zionist, Zangwill had hosted Theodor Herzl in London;
~ Tom Segev
When coffee became popular in Oxford and the coffee houses selling it began to multiply, the university authorities tried to clamp down, worrying that coffee houses promoted idleness and distracted members of the university from their studies
~ Tom Standage
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.
~ Tony Blair