College Educated Quotes

#1. What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!

Margaret Atwood

#2. college-educated workers are more likely to enjoy what they do for a living, and identify closely with their careers, so work long hours willingly.

Anonymous

#3. While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.

Mara Liasson

#4. My goal was to reach this literary crowd, but I didn't want to alienate my core fan base. I grew up speaking that language, this isn't put on. I can go back and forth; it's almost like being bilingual. But I'm not college educated; I don't know rules of grammar.

Rude Jude

#5. Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.

David Halberstam

#6. I was turning out to be college educated and unemployable in even the most basic way.

Tina Fey

#7. 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.

Esther Rolle

#8. The internet was supposed to make this whole business of job searching rational and simple. You could post your resume and companies would search them and they'd find you. It doesn't seem to work that way. There aren't enough jobs for experienced, college educated managers and professionals.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#9. At some point, college-educated women will stop flocking to New York City once they discover, much as Lauren Kay did, that the city's dating game is rigged against them.

Jon Birger

#10. High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity - even among the college-educated.

Daphne Koller

#11. Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.

Warren Farrell

#12. Indeed, many adults don't consider having children at all until they've deemed themselves good and ready: in 2008, 72 percent of college-educated women between the ages of twenty-five and twenty-nine had not yet had children.

Jennifer Senior

#13. I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.

Laura Bates

#14. 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.

Henry Louis Gates

#15. Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

Celinda Lake

#16. There is no group of Americans more pessimistic than working-class whites. Well over half of blacks, Latinos, and college-educated whites expect that their children will fare better economically than they have. Among working-class whites, only 44 percent share that expectation.

J.D. Vance

#17. 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.

Willie Mays

#18. In the economy today, everybody understands that we need a well educated workforce. This is 2016. When we talk about public education, it can no longer be K through 12th grade. I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition free.

Bernie Sanders

#19. No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

Robert Adams

#20. One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

Jonah Goldberg

#21. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Hundreds of thousands of bright, young, qualified people who want to go to college or get a higher education are unable to do so, not because they lack the ability but because they lack the money.

Bernie Sanders

#22. Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

Alex Tabarrok

#23. I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

Dave Barry

#24. I was educated at Bradfield College and Oxford, where I graduated in 1939.

Martin Ryle

#25. She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

#26. In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

Walter Annenberg

#27. I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

Lizz Winstead

#28. America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Barack Obama

#29. My mother was the first woman in the county in Indiana where we were born, in Jay County, to have a college degree. She was educated as a pianist and she wanted to concertize, but when the war came she was married, had a family, so she started teaching.

Twyla Tharp

#30. I believe you need to be educated about what you want to do in life, but I don't believe you actually need college to get you there.

Will Smith

#31. A man who cannot think is not an educated man however many college degrees he may have acquired.

Henry Ford

#32. I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Antony Hewish

#33. If it is about education, then all who are college graduates should be wealthy, but we know that there are many highly educated, highly qualified, and highly experienced people who just manage to scrape by, if at all.

Stephen Richards

#34. I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Al McGuire

#35. Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.

Dan Pearce

#36. My name is Richard Milhous Nixon. I swore an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. I was educated at Whittier College in Whittier, California, and I have seen the devil walk.

Austin Grossman

#37. When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

Toni Morrison

#38. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Gil Scott-Heron

#39. On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

John F. Tierney

#40. Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this ...

Booker T. Washington