Quotes About College

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

I get letters from are appreciative of even smaller scholarships that I've given in the past. The ones I give bigger scholarships too, they always write me and are in contact with me and my wife about helping them and they progress, how much they've progressed in college. It's pretty awesome.

I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

I was never into smart college boy music.

In college, they taught us to think of a bad smell or simulate a bad taste to start crying. I just think of my ex-boyfriend!

I snap with my mom. It was a great way for me to see my dog when I was in college. We send selfies, too.

My plan always was to play college football, hope to get a few snaps in and then go on to medical school. As I went further in my career and got to my junior year, I realized as I looked around, 'I got a shot here, and I might as well go after it.'

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

It's really the city of Detroit that I owe the thanks to and all the people along the way, so many people that played a role in my success in giving me the dreams and aspirations to go to college and do the things that I did.

I think just being able to experience college gymnastics the way I have has allowed me to really express myself and have so much fun in the sport.

During my college days, me and a bunch of close friends had formed a small band. We would perform during the college fest and other cultural functions and it used to be so much fun.

But for all his admiration of the student's intelligence and ability to internalize Russell's arguments, he is dismayed by the young man's willingness to accept those arguments without question. This is a great insight into the revolutionary ethos, especially insofar as it is found in the minds of the young. The college campus rebel bravely questions the existence of God or long-standing societal customs but never thinks to question that which he seeks to replace them with.

My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college.

I was in a band in high school and college and I always had a love for music, but I didn't go to a conservatory or anything like that. I was fairly self-taught.

Basketball was always my first love, but once I had a good year as a senior, I figured the next step was to play college football.

I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

Owens asserted that Democrats were the real plantation owners, and at her college appearances she told young blacks to get over their self-victimization and identity-politics nonsense and stop comparing themselves to actual slaves.

Puberty flicked a switch inside of them and dreams were replaced by hormones and college prep courses and varsity sports while I continued to look for faeries in the woods behind my house.

In tourism college they were taught that American notions of what constitutes a personal question are quite different from their own. TÆ° has learned this the hard way, through responses to questions like: And what do they pay you to be a pharmaceutical representative with GlaxoSmithKline, Mr. Clark? Is this lady your wife or your daughter? Do they have the death penalty in your state of Texas? Why are the insides of your ears so hairy?

Because feeling uncomfortable is what a college education is all about—being exposed to disturbing aspects of human experience. We're talking about twentysomething adults who are exposed to a lot worse in the daily news. I'm not going to infantilize them.