Patrick Carman Quotes

I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

Patrick Carman

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• At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • English
  • Language

• College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • American
  • Dream
  • College

• I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Writing
  • Art
  • College

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Experience
  • Black
  • College

• I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • College
  • United States

• I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • World
  • Teachers
  • Degree

• There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Way
  • English
  • Language

• 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
  • Life
  • School
  • Father

• In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • English
  • Nobody

• 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
  • School
  • Happy
  • College

• I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Time
  • Important
  • Mind

• When I first came into the league, my first three, four years, I had a teammate from college win a Super Bowl.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Win
  • Three

• Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Knowledge
  • College
  • Kid

• If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

  

  William Allen White
  • World
  • Men
  • College

• Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.

  

  Zendaya
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Practice

• The French are overwhelmingly convinced that the euro is a burden. Returning to an adapted national currency will create millions of jobs and give us back our freedom.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Freedom

• No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Old
  • Deals
  • Profession

• I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

  

  Maurice Sendak
  • Children

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics