College Quotes

• There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Man
  • Words
  • Learning

• I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

  

  Martin Ryle
  • College

• I read the collected works of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee and made a list of everything the old Baptist preacher had ever condemned as immoral or untoward. The subjects of his condemnation ranged from college-age women going braless to dogs wearing clothes to Beyonce.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Women
  • Age
  • College

• I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertation for my Ph.D., it was literally the only hour of the day that I wasn't working. It was nine months of torture, but I made sure I got out to run.

  

  Jane McGonigal
  • Writing
  • School
  • College

• Another friend, a child psychologist from the college, once commented that Rachel at age five showed the most reliable indicators of true giftedness in a young person: structured curiosity, empathy for others, compassion, and a fierce sense of fair play.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • True
  • Age
  • Friend

• I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

  

  Hamilton E. James
  • School
  • Business
  • College

• I've teamed up with one of the headmasters at Eton College, and we're spearheading a kind of 'slow education movement in Britain'. It's based on this idea of moving away from the fast-food approach to learning and going to something deeper, more woolly, harder to measure.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Education
  • Food

• At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.

  

  Bernice King
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Art
  • College
  • Photography

• We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Work
  • School

• I grew up reading the 'Village Voice' and wanting to be one of these multidisciplinary music writers, film writers, book writers. And I lucked out getting a job at the 'Voice' right after college.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Up
  • Music
  • Job

• Before I left to go to college, I was living in Orange County, Anaheim Hills. And prior to that, I was in Long Beach.

  

  Omar Benson Miller
  • Long
  • College
  • Beach

• I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Up
  • School
  • Growing

• I took a public speaking class in college and managed to make the class laugh a little bit.

  

  Kevin James
  • Laughing
  • Class
  • Public Speaking

• I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

  

  Joan Baez
  • College

• I put myself through college playing pool.

  

  Walter Alston
  • College
  • Myself
  • Pool

• I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • College
  • Public high school

• I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away to college that I really wanted to make sure I was doing everything possible to feel as confident as I could.

  

  Daphne Oz
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I feel lucky in that I don't really have to go to college to study something job-specific. I just want to go to learn about what is interesting to me and learn about the classes that you don't really get to take in high school because you have to take the basics.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • School
  • Job
  • High

• I'd definitely like to go to college some day.

  

  Kiernan Shipka
  • College

• After being raised as an evangelical Christian, I for years assumed that Christianity was the default - there were Christians, and then there were weirdos. I was shocked when, in college, I found that some people get offended when you tell them, for instance, that their recovery from surgery was a 'miracle.'

  

  David Wong
  • People
  • Christian
  • Miracle

• I remember one time being told I could not play in a basketball game at the College of William and Mary because I was black, even though I was playing with a United States Army team.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Game

• That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • World
  • Education
  • Value

• I remember being in college knowing I didn't want to go anymore. I wanted to try and become an actor. There is a something in me, with a risk of sounding cliche, that I just had to do it. I knew from an early age that acting was my path.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Risk

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