Quotes About College

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at four in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

I used to keep my college room mate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

How could I get up there in public and act like I'm some representative of the class? I can't even go to college like the rest of them. I don't even know where I'm going to live. That's not right. That's not who the valedictorian is.

In high school everyone thought I was kind of a freak. 'Rock Girl,' they'd call me. But around here people think it's okay. That's what's so cool about college, you know? You have a million kids doing all kinds of weird things here.

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.

I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

Vietnam-vet unemployment is a third higher than the national average, they don't get anything close to the benefits the guys from World War Two received, and those who return to college are heckled and spit on by students and teachers as well.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

The standardized Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT) for 2013 paint an equally grim picture. Only 43 percent of the 1.66 million students who took the test scored high enough to be classified as "college ready." What is worse, this is the fifth year in a row that fewer than half of the young people who took the test scored above 1550, the threshold for demonstrating the capability to maintain a grade point average (GPA) of B-minus or better in a four-year degree college or university.10

Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.

When I was in college, I had a friend who was an artist and her theory was that all the best art in the world is funny/sad. That was her favorite genre. Funny/sad are probably my two favorite tones.

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

This was one of those non-glamorous parts about college that people never tell you about - worrying that the dilapidated apartment hosting a party would fall apart with you in it.

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

Middle class families are struggling to send their sons and daughters to school. For many Americans, a college education is essential to future success.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

Don't do drugs kids. There's a time and place for everything. It's called college.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.