Scholarship Quotes · Page 6

I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

— Maxwell Jacob Friedman

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

— Benjamin Carson

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

— Cody Fern

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

— Jack Nicklaus

If I hadn't received a scholarship in football, I would have received it in track. It is actually my favorite sport.

— Randall Cunningham

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

— Billie Jean King

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

— Israel Shenker

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

— Jalen Rose

Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can…

— William Lane Craig

In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and…

— Dallin H. Oaks

Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.

— Warren Farrell

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board.…

— Robert Hass

At 11, I passed the scholarship - only just; I wasn't very good at maths - to Ilford County High for Girls.…

— Nina Bawden

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft…

— Myron Rolle

By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild…

— Jacob Bronowski

I try to encourage young people to follow their dreams. Even if you're born in an urban community it's always something available…

— Adrienne Bailon

“a scholarship somewhere huge, and then a few years from now you’ll get an academic scholarship to the same school and you…

— Angela Jackson-Brown

“I met them in Minneapolis when the Society hosted a brunch for this year's winners and gave us these oversized checks they…

— Brian Malloy

Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into…

— Steven Saylor

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family.…

— Brian Blessed

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school.…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

In 1958, my father graduated from secondary school as the highest-achieving student in the state of Kansas, earning a five-year scholarship to…

— Vivienne Ming

... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

— John Tiffany

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

— Abe Lemons

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

— Ellen Wilkinson

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

— Jacques Barzun

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

— Scott Brooks

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to…

— Bernard Williams

We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we…

— Roy Barnes

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also…

— Sathya Sai Baba

There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the…

— Leland Ryken

I teamed up with the PGA of America to help promote a weekend of golf that raises scholarship money for kids who…

— George W. Bush

Bear in mind that we [ with Edward Herman] did not devise the terms "manufacture of consent" and "engineering of consent." We…

— Noam Chomsky

I was offered a musical-theater scholarship at Kent State. But I turned it down. I was too into rock 'n' roll to…

— Jani Lane

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have…

— Trevor Nunn

The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to…

— Peter Gizzi

I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in…

— Gabby Douglas