College In Quotes

#1. When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.

Dan Rosensweig

#2. The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Bernie Sanders

#3. Maybe we can stay in denial together forever?' I suggest.
...
'No, I mean, maybe there's a town called Denial, and we can literally move there and forget about college.

Emily Henry

#4. Mostly though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

Rashida Jones

#5. I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.

Phil Hartman

#6. I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

Rachel Platten

#7. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon

#8. I think I'm one of those guys who was sort of always in comedy. I thought of myself - and other people seemed to think of me - as funny from a very young age. I was a very young comedy nerd and I even did sketch comedy in high school and college. I wrote and shot sketches on video and acted in them.

Andy Daly

#9. According to Herodotus, the ancient Persians felt that what was necessary in the background of a young man entering adulthood was his ability to ride, shoot straight, and speak the truth. Perhaps we should now grant our college degrees to young men who measure up to that standard.

Jeff Cooper

#10. My only non-acting job was being a barista at Coffee Bean. While I was in college, and I had a blast! I loved making drinks because I got to be like a mad scientist.

Troian Bellisario

#11. In the wasteland of metro Boston, at thirteen, fourteen, his big dream had been of a gun to his own head, putting him out of his misery - a misery that by sophomore year of college was indistinguishable from everybody else's.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#12. I was a quarterback in college. I hoped to go to the NFL, and I didn't get drafted. I then became a free agent. I could sign with whoever I wanted to, and I ended up going to Pittsburgh.

Tony Dungy

#13. 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

#14. I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#15. There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.

Samantha Power

#16. Around the college had grown up in the latter nineteenth century a hap-hazard, ill-blanced collection of professional schools, attended by hard-working meagre creatures with the fun drained out of them...

Yale University

#17. I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#18. I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

Oscar Robertson

#19. When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

Manish Dayal

#20. She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward.
"Cather ... "
Back up to his eyes.
"You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

Rainbow Rowell

#21. One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.

Gail Collins

#22. I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

Stephen Colbert

#23. Permian had established itself as perhaps the most successful football dynasty in the country - pro, college, or high school. Few brands of sport were more competitive than Class AAAAA Texas high school football, the division for the biggest schools in the state.

H. G. Bissinger

#24. I went to college thinking of maybe pursuing a career in film criticism.

Michael Showalter

#25. Guerilla warfare? I was in way over my head. I told myself that I could do this. It was guerilla warfare every time I went to sleep.

Laura Thalassa

#26. For a college basketball player or coach, to reach the Final Four is la-la land. You've achieved, you've got your stamp of approval. My first team to do that was in 1986. Then we did it in '88, '89 and '90.

Mike Krzyzewski

#27. As in, what makes you the happiest? You said you hate college. What makes peace in your heart? That's your passion.

Carolyn Brown

#28. I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

Nawal El Saadawi

#29. As the sociologist Mitchell L. Stevens has put it, "affluent families fashion an entire way of life organized around the production of measurable virtue in children." Measurable, here, means capable of showing up on a college application. We are not teaching to the test; we're living to it.

William Deresiewicz

#30. Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.

Ben Carson

#31. I was dishwasher, then promoted to chef in a local kitchen in a restaurant in Seattle, and I was working on a building site as well, putting in insulation and painting houses, and then doing some classes at a community college nearby.

Alexis Denisof

#32. In my gap year between college and drama school, I taught art at a hospice and worked at a little coffee shop across the street from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London when everything around it was still a construction zone.

Juliet Rylance

#33. I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!

Moira Kelly

#34. I started directing out of necessity, the first play I wrote in college because I didn't know anyone who could direct it.

Conor McPherson

#35. 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.

Jimmy Smits

#36. I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.

Jerry Spinelli

#37. I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of Galway, I became involved in the drama society there and started directing plays.

Garry Hynes

#38. I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

Jodie Foster

#39. I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'

Tom Drury

#40. Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.

Jackson Browne

#41. My father would not pay for me to study anything but engineering or math in college.

Teri Hatcher

#42. I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing.

Dan Castellaneta

#43. Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

Jonny Greenwood

#44. Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've come to realize that the education I got in college was for life. I will have it forever and for that I am incredibly grateful.

Pat Toomay

#45. I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.

Brooke Shields

#46. I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.

Tatyana Ali

#47. Anyone who disagrees with radical Islamic propaganda is being attacked in the media, on college campuses, and at rallies countering events that promote the Islamic cause

Brigitte Gabriel

#48. I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

Duane G. Carey

#49. Things were weird enough without needing to ride around in a van with a bunch of naked, somewhat geeky college students.

Jim Butcher

#50. When Constance was born, Aunt Glo named her after the dormitory she lived in at college: Constance Hall.

Sheri Reynolds

#51. Applicant are just as important as race in determining college admissions ...

Auren Hoffman

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

Elisabeth Rohm

#53. Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

Francoise Sagan

#54. I had no idea where these kids at a small private college in the San Fernando Valley were coming from, why they were coming to hear me, or what they needed to know.

David Antin

#55. He remembered his old tutor at theological college telling him, 'There is something in each of us that cannot be naturally loved. We need to remember this about ourselves when we think of others.' On

James Runcie

#56. College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#57. I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual.

David Henry Hwang

#58. Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

Bill Fitch

#59. The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

Barnaby C. Keeney

#60. If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

Emmy Rossum

#61. Most people walking around in a mall or on a college campus are carrying on them better technology than the entire U.S. government had when it put a man on the moon. Each one of us is a walking technological superpower.

Van Jones

#62. College students can become extremely skilled at a few specialties, but many never learn what to do with those skills in the wider world.

Peter Thiel

#63. The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.

Vivek Wadhwa

#64. When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song ... With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

Allison Williams

#65. The freedom I experienced as a dance major in college gave me so much, but the reality of being in school is that you are still forced to work under restrictions.

Jillian Hervey

#66. It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

Bo Jackson

#67. I was chomping at the bit to get my career started - so after I took all the theater courses at Brooklyn College I enrolled in a two year program at AMDA in the city (The American Musical Dramatic Academy) I was there for 6 months and loved it.

Didi Conn

#68. I got an 'A' in Business Marketing in college!- as if that means a goddamn thing in the real world ...

Whitney Gracia Williams

#69. And by the way, I know my title said "10 Reasons" and I only listed "6". I didn't learn to count in college.

James Altucher

#70. By the time I had got to college, I had begun to read and had decided that most of what Christians believed could not be credible. So I became a philosophy major at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.

Stanley Hauerwas

#71. [In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.

Steve Jobs

#72. When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

Noam Chomsky

#73. At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.

Bill Bailey

#74. If I had stayed with football in college, I probably would have been a first-round pick.

Antonio Gates

#75. I've learned a lot from the experiences that I went through in high school, through college and overseas, and just everything in life. That is what prepared me for coming into the NBA, being undersized, no recognition, not getting anything easy, and I have been fortunate to prosper in this league.

Udonis Haslem

#76. After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.

Lara Spencer

#77. To people I know in the bottom income brackets, living paycheck to paycheck, the Gig Economy has been old news for years. What's new is the way it's hit the demographic that used to assume that a college degree from an elite school was the passport to job security.

Tina Brown

#78. I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.

Imelda May

#79. All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.

Richard Dawkins

#80. I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.

Billy Bob Thornton

#81. I don't do sketch anymore and sometimes I miss it. But I think what I really miss is that time in my life, it was kind of like college. No kids, no real responsibilities, just comedy, food and late nights.

Alex Borstein

#82. The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

George Horace Lorimer

#83. I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.

Kyle Abraham

#84. Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

#85. I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

Jason Isbell

#86. I did some acting in college. But then everything stopped when I was a junior, in the fall of 2001, when I started becoming religious. Once I became a full-on Hasidic, I stopped everything. I stopped music. I stopped acting.

Matisyahu

#87. When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids

Holly Hurd

#88. I was never really interested in studies and was hot-headed and rebellious in college, as I was totally confused and insecure but was not coming to terms with it.

Emraan Hashmi

#89. I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

Thom Mayne

#90. In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.

Mark Waters

#91. I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.

Martin Chalfie

#92. Optimism is important. You have to be a little silly about the goals you are going to set. There is a phrase I learned in college called, 'having a healthy disregard for the impossible.' That is a really good phrase. You should try to do things that most people would not do.

Larry Page

#93. In high school and college all my friends and my brother wrestled.

Verne Troyer

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

James Caan

#95. In Venezuela, which doesn't have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

Juan Pablo Galavis

#96. I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

Vince Young

#97. I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law.

Michele Bachmann

#98. While it is true that many hep C victims became infected through blood transfusions or organ transplants or in other innocent ways, mine was contracted during my college years, when I showed as much care for my personal health as your average suicide bomber.

Gene Weingarten

#99. In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

Hanna Rosin

#100. By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.

Nancy Pelosi