University Quotes · Page 46

I grew up in Florida and went to school there, and ended up going to University of Central Florida.

— Daniel Tosh

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

— James Nesbitt

[Mark] Lilla is a professor at Columbia University in New York, and he has waded into the debate about what Democrats and…

— Steve Inskeep

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where…

— John Masefield

I was born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R., before my father got an appointment at a university in Italy and we moved to Italy.…

— Pavel Durov

Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

— Tom Hicks

At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and…

— Frederick Lenz

When I was a student at Princeton University, I was working part time in a grocery store. I saw an ad for…

— John Katzman

There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go…

— Michael Ignatieff

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is…

— Taslima Nasrin

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often…

— Tony Attwood

I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The…

— Jack L. Chalker

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…

— Huston Smith

“Did he talk about silos?” “Of course he did,” I said. “We have to break down the silos that separate the academic…

— Frankie Bow

“A university is a human invention for the transmission of knowledge and culture from generation to generation, through the training of quick…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a…

— William Congreve

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

— Paul D. Boyer

The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

— Thomas Piketty

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

— Dolly Parton

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if…

— Eddy Merckx

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

— Robert Darnton

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don…

— Douglass North

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

— Andrew Delbanco

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor…

— John Edensor Littlewood

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

— Emma Bonino

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important…

— Vanessa L. Williams

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of…

— Henry Rosovsky

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my…

— Vanessa Mae

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the…

— Denise Austin

It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby…

— H. L. Mencken

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

— Thomas Jefferson

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr

I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to…

— James Hansen

When I was in the first years of university, I fell in more with the visual arts crowd because it was more…

— Lee Ranaldo

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a…

— Edward Abbey

I (naively) thought university training would make you better in following what happens in the world.

— Hans Rosling