Carter G. Woodson (Carter Godwin Woodson) Quotes
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.Carter G. Woodson
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan -
I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.
Patrick Carman -
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.
Gagan Narang -
Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.
Tamsin Greig
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
Nancy Pelosi -
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
Parker Stevenson -
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I am very excited and delighted to be an important part of the development of corporate America.
Irene Rosenfeld -
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
Campbell Scott -
My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.
Jack Ramsay
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I'm a war baby: I was brought up with rationing, and my parents always had to struggle. I remember when I was sent to boarding school - Prior Park College in Bath - my father was asked how he was going to pay the fees, and he replied: 'In arrears.'
Cameron Mackintosh -
I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
J. K. Simmons -
One on God's side is a majority.
Wendell Phillips -
The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo -
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
It was my great good fortune, while I was still a student at college, to have possessed a copy of an English translation of his great work 'The Sensations of Tone.' As is well known, this was one of Helmholtz's masterpieces.
C. V. Raman
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When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.
Marla Maples -
I think Jughead's a selfish character. I think he really is.
Cole Sprouse -
Being a CEO requires a specific skill set, and a background in engineering equips individuals with the ability to plan logically and make decisions that fit properly within the context of the business.
Dinesh Paliwal -
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
H. P. Lovecraft -
My father is an actor, and I used to go on set to visit him. I saw the stories he was telling and said: 'That's what I want to do.' I was always in awe whenever I went to the movies or when I watched television.
Gabriel Macht -
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson