Quotes About College

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

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 student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

I used to be a regular college student and now I go all over the country and stay at really nice hotels.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

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.

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.

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.

It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.

I got into the Shanghai Drama Institute because my parents, like all parents, want their children to have good grades and to go to a good college. I became a college student because of them.

The new American dream is one of responsibility. What is the bottom-line number that you're going to be able to pay back toward a student loan responsibly if you're doing it yourself after you have a job? That dictates the amount of money you can borrow. That dictates the school you can go to, if you can even go to a four-year college at all.

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

Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.

When I was a student, I had a part time job as a barmaid at a dodgy pub in Kent.

As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

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

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents were born in Cuba - and we didn't yet know that families were supposed to leave pretty much right after they unloaded your stuff from the car.

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by 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.

Mr. Obama seeks to federalize large portions of education, beginning with his attempt to nationalize college student loans.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.