Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ato Essandoh

My parents are from Ghana. Until I was 17, I thought you had to go to college. I had no idea. I didn't know it was not an option.

Arne Duncan

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

Arne Duncan

Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

We always encourage our students to get as much research time as they can. That's very important to further their career. It will give them more of a rich college experience.

Derek Bok

Economists who have studied the relationship between education and economic growth confirm what common sense suggests: The number of college degrees is not nearly as important as how well students develop cognitive skills, such as critical thinking and problem-solving ability.

Derek Bok

The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.

Denise Juneau

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.

Deepak Chopra

I am impressed with the natural health programs at Nature Care College. Their dedication to quality education is truly inspiring.

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.

Ed Gillespie

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

Elizabeth Banks

When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

Edwin Meese

I was attorney general; my name is Meese. I say, go to college. Don't carry a piece.

Edwin Moses

I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.

Benjamin Jowett

If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college.

Aaron Staton

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

Aaron Tveit

After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.

Alan Shepard

We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.

Charlie Daniels

Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

Cheryl Tiegs

When I finished my college education my agent said to me …'The key to beauty is to be always educating yourself, always learning something new, always doing something new and to have something to talk about.' And I never forgot that, and I think that's how one ages beautifully.

Charlaine Harris

I could tell Hugo was convinced that he would get to walk back up these stairs: after all, he was a civilized person. These were all civilized people. Hugo really couldn't imagine that anything irreparable could happen to him, because he was a middle-class white American with a college education, as were all the people on the stairs with us. I had no such conviction. I was not a wholly civilized person.

Charlie Hunnam

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon

Charlie Kaufman

I graduated from college in 1980.

Charles Hamilton Houston

The individual college youth cannot wait forever until the problem of his education is decided.

Bill McKibben

If [a student's] college’s endowment portfolio has fossil-fuel stock, then their educations are being subsidized by investments that guarantee they won’t have much of a planet on which to make use of their degree.

Bill Maher

A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.

Bill Watterson

I played in rock bands in college and then right out of college I moved over to Europe and lived in Ireland for about four years playing in indie rock bands. I love and miss being in a band, I still am in a band but pursuing that as a career I definitely missed it but I felt like that ship had sailed.

Gary Johnson

We don't have another option, so I guess we'll need to reconsider the future of Early College .

Steve Nash

When I was in my last year in high school, I decided I wanted to try to make it in the NBA. So I went to college and figured out I could do it. Once I figured out I could play in the NBA, I also figured I could be an All-Star. I knew I could do it.

Mel Brooks

When we did 'Young Frankenstein,' we knew we could get the college crowd. They loved the Mary Shelley novel. If you didn't get the references, you couldn't enjoy my movies.

We find deals for the people who need it the most: the college students. We might find deals on videos, music or other products a college student might need.

Edgar Wright

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

Bobby Flay

I want to go to college and go back to Georgetown. It's a really cool place.

bell hooks

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world.