Famous Quotes & Sayings

It wasn't really her fault, but the end result was she didn't have the consistency that she needed to develop to where she needed to be. She had to pick it up in college, which is a very hard thing to do. When you are in college, doing college work, getting married and looking at graduating, it is hard to pick up everything that you missed before, and gain all the stuff that you are supposed to learn in college.

It was fantastic. Earl took fight songs from various colleges and universities and made it a terrific, joyous time.

It was the finest piece of legislation ever passed. Just in income taxes alone, the government got back several times over what it had spent on college tuition.

Gertrude Stein

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.

Harry Dean Stanton

I took speech training. I took a few voice lessons in college.

Greta Gerwig

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

Gordon Gee

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

Gordon Gee

College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

Gordon Gee

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Herman Melville

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Esther Rolle

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget how they got to where they are.

Ezra Klein

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

Flannery O'Connor

In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough.

Fidel Castro

The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.

Fidel Castro

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

Henry Louis Gates

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Henny Youngman

College: A fountain of knowledge where all go to drink.

Gillian Jacobs

College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.

Iyanla Vanzant

I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Ella Baker

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

Jeremy Lin

Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.

Jenna Fischer

I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

Jenna Fischer

Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

Jerry Robinson

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed to Jews. Colleges, advertising agencies, many of the corporations - the doors that were closed led to the one that was open.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

Jeff Mangum

I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

Jim Gaffigan

I never went to church when I was in college, either.

Jesse Jackson

There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

James Caan

I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest.

James A. Garfield

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

Jackie Kennedy

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.