College Going Culture Quotes

#1. You have to know what you own. You have to really do your homework in terms of knowing what supports your bonds.

Meredith Whitney

#2. Most offensive is what he imagines a person thinks about himself.

Leonard Michaels

#3. I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward feminism. So what I can do is, in ways that are appropriate, advocate for feminism and help the students learn what feminism is about.

Roxane Gay

#4. Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Thomas Wolfe

#5. Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

Anthony Marra

#6. In college, my wife did a study abroad in Nairobi, and I did the exact same program in Cape Town. For me, the experience of being in that other culture really set up a longing. When I'm traveling, things seem really sharp. You learn things ten times faster.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#7. VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

Frances Beinecke

#8. I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

Jayma Mays

#9. She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver ... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year and lap up a little culture ... They're officious and dull. They're always making profound observations they've overheard.

Gene Kelly

#10. You may find that part of your personal style comes from the culture where you spent the first years of your life, another from the culture where you attended college and held your first job, another from your father's culture, and still another from your mother's culture.

Erin Meyer

#11. I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Arthur Golden

#12. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

Harold Bloom

#13. In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park.

Stephen Rodrick

#14. The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

Nina Easton

#15. I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

Brit Morin

#16. I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.

Nicholas Sparks

#17. After college I got a job and started working. This new career had absolutely nothing to do with my degree.

Jason Najum

#18. The college bookstore was a splash of life, culture, and society. As a psychology student, I often found myself intrigued by the behavior, ways of thinking and feeling, and general schemata of others, and this was the perfect spot to engage my senses.
Other times, I was just annoyed.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#19. The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Samuel Smiles

#20. Jefferson attributes to a college professor and mentor his lifelong habit of questioning conventional wisdom.

John Ferling

#21. An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#22. Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

Connie Eble

#23. When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Tyler Perry

#24. Because ... it'll make everything worse ... If you don't feel-

Brodi Ashton

#25. When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.

Emily Yoffe

#26. Love knows no time, or distance, and it certainly knows no reason.

Genevieve Dewey

#27. Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

Jack London

#28. My own contentious relationship with gaming continued through high school and college: I still enjoyed playing games from time to time, but I always found myself pushed away by the sexism that permeated gaming culture. There were constant reminders that I didn't really belong.

Anita Sarkeesian

#29. Christmas is about change. It's a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

Toni Sorenson

#30. Anything was possible. When you hear hooves you look for horses, but you can't discount zebras.

Paula Hawkins

#31. For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education.

Rick Perlstein

#32. I've been going insane reading my students' papers. Apparently several of them think the Hubble Space Telescope is used to search the universe for hubbles."
~ Ithana Aaronson

Jeanne Birdsall