Top 100 College Is Quotes
#1. A women's college is a fine idea, and I hope it continues to flourish. Even if most of its students go on to dedicate themselves to hearth and home, their children will benefit for their mothers' educations.
Meredith Duran
#2. For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.
Missy Franklin
#3. 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
#4. Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway.
A.L. Jackson
#5. 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
#6. College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.
Stephen Graham
#8. I would have thought that one of the things one should learn from college is that nothing is guaranteed. Even if you study something as vocational as accountancy, you still may end up not getting a job as an accountant.
Rebecca Mead
#9. A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
Richard LaGravenese
#10. When I was a kid, and it was time to go to college, I thought, 'College is for people who don't have the street smarts to make it on their own - get in a band, get in a van, and get rockin'.
Flea
#11. Just remember this: college is the most expensive place to be confused in the whole entire world.
Brittany Gibbons
#12. I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia Labeouf
#13. College is the grinding machine of the Mathematical Establishment, a conveyor belt that takes individuals from one cookie cutter to another so that the product comes within tight control limits out of the assembly line.
Bill Gaede
#14. Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
Alex Tabarrok
#15. A big part of why I wanted to go to college is to meet people and make friends.
Miranda Cosgrove
#16. For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
William Styron
#17. So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.
Andrew Delbanco
#18. College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation
Vera Brittain
#19. Do you think it's a coincidence that college is when many Americans do their most serious fucking and falling-down drinking and generally ecstatic DIonysian-type reveling? It's not.
David Foster Wallace
#20. College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood,
Stephen King
#21. Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the classroom. I believe the reason you go to college is to get your degree. It's not a minor league or an audition for the pros.
Rebecca Lobo
#22. One of the wonderful things about going to a small college is you can get into everything.
Art Linkletter
#23. College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be.
Cheyenne Kimball
#24. It can be a huge help to parents considering the adoption of an older child, when college is just a few years away, to know that there are post-adoption resources and specific financial assistance opportunities available to them.
Rhea Perlman
#25. I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.
Mark Cuban
#26. College is expensive; I always knew that, and I wanted to make money, partially to spend a little of it here and there, but primarily for a college savings fund.
Gillian Jacobs
#27. Our chief marketable skill, coming out of college, is the ability to write authoritatively about things we don't necessarily understand.
Dave Barry
#28. I believe everything learned in college is an answer to a question that someone has posed. Questions get posed differently and the answers that come back transport us to places we never knew existed.
Gordon Gee
#29. Whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that what's leads to a more fulfilling life.
John Green
#31. Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
David McCullough
#32. Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings and expand yourself as a human and as an artist, whatever it is you're going for.
Lindsey Stirling
#33. Message to all you crazed parents desperately hiring tutors and padding your kid's thin resume: Chillax. Attending an elite college is no guarantee of leadership, life success, or earnings potential.
Nina Easton
#35. College is the greatest vacation anyone can take before real life begins. CR 2002 Hear the Calliope: A sentimental journey on the Earth Ride
Celia A. Andriello
#36. [Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.
Nora Ephron
#37. This sport is just crazy. Your worst enemy in college is your teammate and friend when you get to the NBA. Who would have thought it?
Gilbert Arenas
#38. We have a foundation, the Soledad O'Brien Starfish Foundation. We send girls to and through college. We started-off saying we send girls to college, but to do so is not enough. Seeing them through college is the key.
Soledad O'Brien
#39. One thing they do not teach you in college is what you will actually be doing in a career of your choosing.
Joanie Connell
#40. College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don't worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency.
Jon Stewart
#41. I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.
Jacob Latimore
#42. What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.
Derek Bok
#43. The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.
Bunker Roy
#44. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life. That's how my parents were; my parents have been teachers for as long as I've known 'em. I was worried that I'd gotten into something that I was going to hate.
Jack McBrayer
#45. College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents ... and bounce it.
Henry Cho
#46. College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep ... but you can only choose two.
Andy Stern
#47. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
Albert Einstein
#48. The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
#49. Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.
Mindy Kaling
#50. Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
John Ridley
#51. College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.
Mark Twain
#52. The thing that drives most coaches out of coaching in college is they get tired of the grind of recruiting.
Bobby Bowden
#53. I don't think college is something you should tough out.
Kevin Roose
#54. College is a safe space where it can be hard to truly fail. The institution is rooting for you because your failure makes them look bad, too. New York City has no such mandate. I've had to hone and sharpen and refine my work here at a pace which may not have happened in other cities.
Baratunde Thurston
#55. He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
Barbara Kingsolver
#56. Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.
Stephenie Meyer
#58. Have to start taking things mildly seriously, now! Ugh! Just the word sends shivers down my spine. Serious. Seeeerious. Cereal-ous. Trix are for kids. College is not for kids. College is for grown-ups.
Sara Wolf
#59. There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.
Serge Schmemann
#60. I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?
Oprah Winfrey
#61. College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come.
We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.
Dan Rather
#62. College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
Barbara Mikulski
#63. You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.
L. Frank Baum
#64. The primary purpose of going to college isn't to get a great job. The primary purpose of college is to build a strong mind, which leads to greater self-awareness, capability, fulfillment, and service opportunities, which, incidentally, should lead to a better job.
Sean Covey
#65. For the trustees to turn away from the entirely reasonable request of the students that a hearing-impaired individual be made president of the college is a very unfortunate expression of insensitivity.
Barney Frank
#66. College is so awesome! It's really too bad they try to ruin it with classes!
Jillian Dodd
#67. College is a time in life where you get to know yourself as a player on the pitch and off the pitch. My coaches at USF were instrumental in making me understand the discipline it takes to succeed at the next level. Those were four special years for me.
Jeff Cunningham
#68. Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.
Nigel Hamilton
#69. College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
Judd Apatow
#70. College is such a unique time because you're learning a little bit how to be an adult. You're learning how to take care of yourself without parental influence, and you're exposed to so many great minds. I feel like I didn't even know how to think until I got to college.
Anne Hathaway
#71. You should see the way this college is studying!
Jean Webster
#72. College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it's all about texting and fast food.
Aaron B. Powell
#73. College is an amazing experience, but it's up to you to ignore the drama and focus on the good. Avoid silly boys, ignore spiteful girls, and don't be afraid to have fun.
Kandi Steiner
#74. Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.
Kent McCord
#75. Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.
Alex Tabarrok
#76. Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar ghetto and into a more white-collar job. That does not necessarily mean they are being paid more than the blue-collar jobs men have.
Gloria Steinem
#77. the primary purpose of college is to become a learner.
Matthew Sanders
#78. This sounds so bogus, but I would love to, at some point when my kids are in college, is just go do a whole season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and do a year of plays. Most actors miss the days of live theater.
Donal Logue
#79. I still believe that one of the greatest advantages of college is that I'm officially allowed not to care about high school anymore
Megan McCafferty
#80. College is where you meet your soul mate people!
Alla Kar
#81. College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.
George Gobel
#82. College is the best thing that can ever happen to you, my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking..
David Sedaris
#83. College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
David Wood
#84. Every summer, I regret that I didn't become a college teacher. Such a sweet life! With all that vacation time! You'll never get me to believe that being a tenured professor at a good college is anything but Heaven on earth.
Michael Dirda
#85. The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?
Ellen Swallow Richards
#86. Now, I'm not stupid, but when you see that your ticket to college is either football or your brains, and football is so much more fun, you tell me which one you'd pay attention to.
(Jameson)
Shukyou
#87. What first stuns the young writer emerging from college is that there is no clear-cut road for him to travel on. He must chop a path in the wilderness of his own soul, a disheartening process, lifelong and lonesome and therefore, of what use graduate work?
Brad Gooch
#89. I don't think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.
Blake Mycoskie
#90. I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can't think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, expect perhaps the bicycle.
Kay Ryan
#92. College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience ... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.
David Sze
#93. The threshold of the Dream Act is not high enough. One year of community college is not enough ... No, I do not support the Dream Act.
Michael Baumgartner
#94. College is just a place where they let you pay them to tell you things you should be getting paid to learn on the job. TRUE.
Don't take that teat, baby. That is a raw tittie. College is a red raw areola, and instead of milk it releases highly acidic French dressing.
"Ray's Place" 1/6/04
Chris Onstad
#95. That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.
Jeph Jacques
#96. Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.
Tim Tebow
#97. Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"
Chris Rock
#98. Don't ever let anyone tell you that college is for smart people. College eats smart people alive.
Hannah Moskowitz
#99. US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.
Roseanne Barr
#100. [The Barefoot College is] the only college where the teacher is the learner and the learner is the teacher.
Bunker Roy
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