I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.
~By Spencer Dryden ~
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.
~By Alistair Cooke ~
As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
I remember when I was in college, I used to watch Julia Child's cooking show during dinner and joke with my roommates about becoming a TV chef.
~By Martin Yan ~
I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
~By Dave Barry ~
The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Where I grew up in Dallas, things might be a little more traditional. People have the same things in mind. They're supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job, get married, and have children, grandchildren. That's the world I grew up in.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.
~By Lusia Strus ~
I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade.
~By James Worthy ~
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
~By David McCullough ~
No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education.
~By Bobby Scott ~
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
~By Roger Kahn ~
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
~By Katharine Fullerton Gerould ~
Not at all, I wanted to go into medicine. I took science in college. But my dad was a Producer - Director in Kannada films, and someone saw me, and one thing led to another.
~By Soundarya ~
When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.
~By Sarah Zettel ~
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.
~By Edward Levi ~
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
~By Terri Windling ~
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.
~By Charlie Daniels ~
The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.
~By Jeffrey Dean Morgan ~
Wisconsin is very proud of the career and technical college system that we have back home.
~By Ron Kind ~
You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Still, it's tough trying to combine my acting career with my college career.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
I went to college with James Coburn and Steve McQueen was a very good friend.
~By Robert Vaughn ~
It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
~By Luke Ford ~
I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
~By Hubert H. Humphrey ~
I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
~By Jeremy London ~
No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.
~By Jonathan Richman ~
The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.
~By Willie Mays ~
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
~By Ric Keller ~
Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
~By Luke Ford ~
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Never get married in college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
~By Ric Keller ~
When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.
~By Elizabeth Banks ~
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
~By Bobby Scott ~
In 1948 I was appointed to a Lectureship in Physics and in 1949 elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College.
~By Martin Ryle ~
I was so impressed with the work we were doing and I was very involved ideologically in photography - that I arranged an exhibition at the College Art Association. The first exhibition I picked the photographs and so on and we had an exhibition in New York.
~By Ben Shahn ~
After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
I broke with my religion in college.
~By Anne Rice ~
The truth of the matter is I stayed in L.A. raising my children, and when they went to college, I packed my bags along with them and came to New York and looked for parts in the theatre, because that's always what I preferred doing.
~By Andrea Martin ~
As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.
~By Jane Goodall ~
A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of murder victims, and this was the sense in which it was used at a four-day conference in early June at Boston College.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
~By Dean Smith ~
Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.
~By Beverley Mitchell ~
But you take a four-year state college, with a broader range of admission, and what happens during those four years may be an even greater value-added educational experience. I don't know.
~By Roy Romer ~
The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
~By Campbell Scott ~
There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community.
~By Jeanne Shaheen ~
Anyone can use these sites - companies and colleges, teachers and students, young and old all make use of networking sites to connect with people electronically to share pictures, information, course work, and common interests.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
No, I was going to college and got discovered.
~By Jay Hernandez ~
Tim Robbins had real confidence in college. He literally stole actors from the theater department at UCLA to be in his plays. The department heads got so mad at him.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
~By Thomas Friedman ~
Well, we were all in high school and we got together, and in college - we were in art college together.
~By Alice Cooper ~
The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.
~By Paul Fussell ~
College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
~By Ruby Wax ~
I went to college for one semester, and I took every subject I could, and I ended up failing. So I thought to myself, Ever since I was a kid, I've loved expression - and that's when I started thinking about acting.
~By Derek Luke ~
Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens.
~By Jon Porter ~
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.
~By James Hall ~
The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.
~By Bo Jackson ~
I obtained a job at the Library of Congress. I loved books, so I felt at home. I was going to end up, I thought, majoring in English and teach at the college level.
~By Tom Glazer ~
I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.
~By Trishelle Cannatella ~
The Army War College has been a tradition in central Pennsylvania for years.
~By Bill Shuster ~
It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music.
~By Cheryl Lynn ~
Presidents are elected not by direct popular vote but by 538 members of the Electoral College.
~By Thomas E. Mann ~
Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.
~By David Crane ~
I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.
~By Natalie Portman ~
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.
~By Norm Coleman ~
It's clear enough that there was substantial fraud in Ohio, thus delivering the Electoral College vote for President Bush.
~By George Galloway ~
Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm.
~By David Duchovny ~
As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.
~By Vito Fossella ~
And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
~By Karen Hughes ~
And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
~By John Sexton ~
I grew up below the poverty line; I didn't have as much as other people did. I think it made me stronger as a person, it built my character. Now I have a 4.0 grade point average and I want to go to college, and just become a better person.
~By Justin Bieber ~
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
~By Abraham Robinson ~
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
~By Wentworth Miller ~
I always give the example, if you turn on the radio today, black radio, Lenny Kravitz is not black. Bob Marley wasn't black: in the beginning, only white college stations played Bob Marley.
~By Spike Lee ~
I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me.
~By Loni Anderson ~
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
~By Andy Summers ~
The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
~By Beth Henley ~
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.
~By Roger Clemens ~
I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.
~By Mary Chapin Carpenter ~
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
~By Verne Troyer ~
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
~By Marta Kristen ~
I got out of college and I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor's Workshop, being abused as a intern.
~By Peter Coyote ~
Folk music was out there. Clubs were springing up and they were hot with the college kids.
~By Dick Smothers ~
In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.
~By Mary Oliver ~
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
~By B. B. King ~
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.
~By Jim Henson ~
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
~By John Dyer ~
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