University Quotes
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Photography has always been a passion of mine, but I began to study light field photography when I was in the Ph.D. program at Stanford University.
Ren Ng
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The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.
Michael York
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The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.
Mohamed Bamba
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I spent almost 11 years at university. I have three degrees. I was a nutritional scientist for the Department of National Defense, and then I spent the next 20 years studying it and writing about it.
Harley Pasternak
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I went to the University of Toronto for a year, and I'm always trying to get across what university is really like.
Scott Speedman
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The irony is that Barack Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Nat Hentoff
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Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.
Terry Eagleton
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The university doesn’t free women but completes their repression.
Elena Ferrante
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I'm introduced today as Iowa State's wrestling coach because of the selfless sacrifices of my college coach, Bobby Douglas. I promise to work as hard as I did as a competitor to build upon the traditions I've inherited as head coach. Iowa State University is a special place to our family. I'm humbled and excited at the same time about my opportunity.
Cael Sanderson
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The empirical is very important, but merit is inherent and not acquired. A university is massively important because you can see where you stand naturally in the ranks, and try yourself out, but education is just reading and understanding what you read.
William Monahan
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The library is…a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated.
Katharine Sharp
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I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
Elizabeth Edwards
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Stony Brook is a phenomenal university and I am proud to be affiliated with it, so it is gratifying to be able to support this wonderful institution in whatever way I can.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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Science was always a passion, but I also loved 'Monty Python' and 'The Young Ones,' and I discovered the Footlights comedy club at university, where a lot of those people got their start. I had a go and loved it immediately. After that, I just couldn't stop writing sketches, and it all took off from there.
Ben Miller
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I spent two years working on building sites, working on the railways as a guard and in a racing stable, exercising racehorses. I learnt to build relationships. The experience of not being stuck in some middle-class bubble taught me things that being at university hadn't.
Nicholas Davies
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One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.
Michael Gove
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I'm going to try to get everybody who makes less than $125,000 in their family, which is the vast majority of people, to be able to go to a public college or university totally tuition-free. And if you make more than that, debt-free.
Hillary Clinton
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In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.
Renny Harlin
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His wealth, his upbringing, his reputation, well known among the students, as a young militant on the left, his sociability, even his courage when he delivered carefully measured speeches against powerful people within and outside the university—all this had given him an aura that automatically extended to me, as his fiancée or girlfriend or companion, as if the pure and simple fact that he loved me were the public sanctioning of my talents.
Elena Ferrante
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I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
Cate Marvin
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I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University. Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?
Eva Marie Saint
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University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.
Kate Cruise O'Brien
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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
Ray Bradbury