Quotes About College

Think I have made a terrible mistake going to college. Have decided to become a shepherd and spend my days tending to flocks of goats

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself, all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

Studying for an important test? Google "site:edu [subject] exam". You'll get a bunch of different college exams with similar problems to what may be on your test.

Although in principle both women believed in love, neither of them believed in romance. It was all a performance for them, what women had to do for men, what men had to do for women—it was a manner of assessing each other's value. Cora had taken an economics class in college and was fairly certain her vagina was a capitalist tool.

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend and I were driving to California. She laughed out loud - 2 000 miles in a what? Well, my best friend had an old Chevy. What could go wrong?

First ponder then dare. Know your facts. Count the cost. Money is not the important thing. What you are building is not a medical school. It is the Kingdom of God. Don't err on the side of being too small. If this is the will of God that we should find some way to keep the college open. It has to be done.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

College took Elizebeth's innate tendency to doubt and gave it a structure, a justification. At Wooster and Hillsdale she discovered poetry and philosophy, two methods of exploring the unknown, two scalpels for carving up fact and thought.

A man has the advantage of being delivered early from the home point of view, and before Selden left for college he had learned that there are as many different ways of going without money as of spending it.

There once was a student named Bessor, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

Fargo was a vicious little crime drama shot on a shoestring budget. Ethan's college friend, William Robertson, begged the brothers not to make it: You've just had a huge flop, now you want to make a crime drama set in North Dakota? Nobody will watch it,

I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic.