College Quotes

• I modeled for a little while in college. I was desperate to travel, and I got scouted, and they wanted me to go to Paris and London for six months. And I discovered that I hated it. I didn't like the expectation to be pretty all the time.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Travel

• Now I understand one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is to learn that the things you've believed in all your life aren't true, and that nothing is what it appears to be.

  

  Daniel Keyes
  • Life
  • Important
  • True

• When I was growing up, my mother only put her foot down once: She said, 'You are going to college.' And that was a lifesaving moment. But she never talked to me about my clothes or hair. So I learned how to parent my kids through her.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Up
  • She
  • Kids

• We wanted to make movies back in college before Rooster Teeth. Our roots have always been in feature filmmaking, and we've always wanted to go back to it.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • College

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

  

  Kiernan Shipka
  • College

• I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • School
  • Happy

• Government - they used to teach it in college. It's actually something you should study and learn and know how to do. The Republicans always run on the idea that government isn't very effective. Well, not the way you do it. But it can be effective.

  

  Bill Maher
  • College
  • Study

• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  

  John E. Walker
  • College

• I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.

  

  Martin Chalfie
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted without having a successful career. You can be exalted if you are not rich and famous. So focus the best that you can on those things in life that will lead you back to the presence of God - keeping all things in their proper balance.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• So while I was in college I did a little study on the freight industry, the air freight industry. And I looked at this company called Flying Tiger. And I actually put a thousand dollars in it and I remember I thought this air cargo was going to be a thing of the future.

  

  Peter Lynch
  • Remember
  • Future
  • Air

• The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

  

  James W. Black
  • Real
  • Opportunity
  • Small

• We are making sure our counselors are connecting with our students about college, ... Sometimes students think they don't have enough money to attend college, and we have spent time meeting with them, letting them know they can.

  

  Mike Rutherford Genesis
  • College
  • Students
  • Connecting

• Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth. The intellectual kings of the earth have seldom been college-bred.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Earth
  • Education
  • College

• The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment.

  

  Pete McCloskey
  • College
  • Environment

• Every day, families in the United States face the stark choice between a roof over their heads and food on the table. Buying health insurance, owning a home, and saving up for college are just too far out of their reach.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Up
  • Home
  • Food

• Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

  

  Brandon Jennings
  • College

• I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Up
  • High

• I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • Work
  • Art
  • Photography

• I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.

  

  James Nachtwey
  • Work
  • Training
  • Photography

• A year and a half ago, there were people who questioned whether Vince Young could be a major college quarterback.

  

  Mack Brown
  • People
  • College

• When I was in college, the first thing we did in acting class was to observe an animal at the zoo and become that animal. So I picked a wallaby.

  

  Claire Coffee
  • College
  • Animal

• The fact is that everybody around a college basketball game - the coaches, the announcers, even the referees at a lower level - calculates when the game is really over. They calculate it with intuition and guesswork.

  

  Bill James
  • Game
  • Basketball
  • Intuition

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