Quotes About Preparing For College

#1. But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.

Shane Claiborne

#2. This is Deirdre," said Addison. "She's an emu-raffe, which is a bit like a donkey and a giraffe put together, only with fewer legs and a peevish temper. She's a terrible sore loser at cards," he added in a whisper. "Never play an emu-raffe at cards. Say hello, Deirdre!

Ransom Riggs

#3. Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Chow Yun-Fat

#4. Wrestlers give their bodies to their work. I don't know if I like the word 'crazy' here. What I would say is there are people who have a different relationship to their bodies than most people.

John Darnielle

#5. For this is what I have learned, in my short life: do not act out of anger. Act from love or not at all. I have seen it, how anger makes a space for what I must call evil.

Kim Edwards

#6. I'm beginning to think I've led a much too sheltered life.

Diana Wynne Jones

#7. Do I care? No, I don't care. People need certain things.

Leland Yee

#8. I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'might-have-been' by far; for a 'might-have-been' has never been, but a 'has' was once an 'are.

Milton Berle

#9. 'Beneath the Piano' by The Devil Makes Three somehow reminds me of an old Johnny Cash song. The song is a lot of fun and tells a story.

Ben Lovett

#10. What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

Michelle Obama

#11. Work as joy, inaccessible to the psychologists.

Franz Kafka

#12. Don't get dead, Raphael, or I swear I'll hunt you down in the afterlife.

Nalini Singh

#13. An Elegy
A thousand times must we deplore
The lost will never come to life again;
Even as flowing water runs away,
Returning nevermore.
Lady Kanin

Reiko Chiba

#14. Concentrate on what you need to do ... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it? ... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

Laurence Boldt

#15. The government should do its job. The government's job is, in fact, to run the country, to manage the country, to govern the country. And governance is an important thing, not application where it suits one so, to micro control where it suits them on the other hand.

Ratan Tata

#16. Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing ... Bok is ... on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

George Leef