Quotes with colleges

  • These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.

Quotes 1 till 13 of 13.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
    +7
  • Abraham Lincoln Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
    - +
    +1
  • Bob Dylan Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
    Performed literature: words and music by Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Robert Green Ingersoll Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
    - +
     0
  • 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 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bryce Dallas Howard I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
    - +
     0
  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
    - +
     0
  • Carter G. Woodson The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Abraham Robinson We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.
    Abraham Robinson
    Polish mathematician (1918 - 1974)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Capper We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Alistair Cooke These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
    - +
    -1
All colleges famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com