Quotes with college

  • I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.
  • By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
  • The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
  • Then when I was in grammar school I played the clarinet, and then, after clarinet I played the flute in college orchestra - besides singing in the college chorus and things like that.
  • We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.
  • Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'
  • Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.
  • When I was in college, I was belittling the woman who later become my wife for not knowing who Boba Fett was, and she responded by asking me if I knew who the Prime Minister of Israel was. Surprisingly? Not Mon Mothma.
  • I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
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  • Theodore Roosevelt A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Martin Luther King Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Mark Twain Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ann Bancroft Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Mark Twain Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing, but cabbage with a college education.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • C. Everett Koop You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • John Ciardi A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Noam Chomsky After my first year of college, each course I took in every field was so boring that I didn't even go to the classes.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Bob Dylan And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
    To the old folks home and the college
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • A. J. Liebling As a result of its generous stand, the University of Chicago's undergraduate college acts as the greatest magnet for neurotic juveniles since the Children's Crusade, with Robert Maynard Hutchins playing the role of Stephen the Shepherd Boy.
    Chicago: The Second City (2004) p.110
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Alexander Pope But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Albert Maltz By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
    Albert Maltz
    American playwright and fiction writer (1908 - 1985)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard-you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Barbara Mikulski College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Helen Keller College isn't the place to go for ideas.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Barbara Mikulski Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Die and endow a college or a cat.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Billy Collins Discovering Samuel Beckett in college was a big deal for me. I realized you could be very funny and very dark at the same time.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Alice Duer Miller Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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