Famous Quotes & Sayings

The first thing about him is that he is really a tough player. He'll need to learn the college game, but as a linebacker he fills exactly the way you would want him to.

The college would like these programs to continue, but they should be able to support themselves.

The colleges can still look for diversity in their entering classes, but the question is how do they look to that? ... Because you can't establish point policies for minorities, you have to effectively be more creative and less definitive.

G. H. Hardy

The College of Textiles is great because it is diverse and welcoming. The smaller environment allows you to be more interactive with the college as a whole.

The college game has become run and gun, push forward and head it in. And she's got all the tools for that.

The first part of our season was very demanding with lots of tough matches and travel too. Experiencing that can only help our team improve and learn more about what it takes to compete at this level of college tennis. I'm looking forward to the next phase of our season leading up to Spring Break. We should be fresh and ready to go.

The company's college rep program has been going on since 1969, and it's extremely well-established. Many people have moved up to successful jobs after working as reps.

Ralph Abernathy

Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

Rajon Rondo

It’s kind of like, I would say, maybe college recruiting. I’m pretty sure a lot more goes into it in the NBA. A lot more money is spent. I’ve heard stories, guys getting called right at midnight. It’s something that I haven’t experienced. I may want to go through it. I haven’t thought about it at all.

Shane Carruth

I am obsessed with story. I had a late awakening in life. In college was the first time that I understood what you could do with a story and what a good novel is - literary value and subtext and irony and everything.

Mick Jagger

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

Michelle Obama

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.

Sherrod Brown

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

John Henrik Clarke

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

John E. Walker

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

John Carmack

I really think, if anything, there is more evidence to show that the violent games reduce aggression and violence. There have actually been some studies about that, that it's cathartic. If you go to QuakeCon and you walk by and you see the people there [and compare that to] a random cross section of a college campus, you're probably going to find a more peaceful crowd of people at the gaming convention. I think it’s at worst neutral and potentially positive.

John Belushi

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

Joan Rivers

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

Jimmy Smits

In my college years, I worked as a union labor organizer. I was just one of the many workers trying to do my part to help the community.

Jimmy Smits

I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer.

Garry Trudeau

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Frank Bruni

Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Elisabeth Rohm

I got out of college in 1997, and TV embraced me very quickly.

Jimmy Fallon

Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms.

John Corbett

I took an acting class at Cerritos Junior College and I did a handful of plays, maybe five or six plays.

Joe Biden

I was first in my family to go to college.

Joe Biden

In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

Lolo Jones

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Lloyd Alexander

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

Lou Henry Hoover

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

John F. Kennedy

What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it.

Linus Pauling

Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world.

Lindsay Lohan

I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.