After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It was much later that I realized Dad's secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade… — Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot Copy Share Image
I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
I always wished I had a chance to meet an NFL player or even a college player when I was growing up… — Stephen Baker Copy Share Image
By college, I had a really grand, preposterous vision of myself as becoming a writer, but I don't think I had the… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
College coaches, you know how they are - they want you to go 1,000 percent every second of the day. — Collin Sexton Copy Share Image
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
By the time a student gets to college, he's spent a decade curating a bewilderingly diverse résumé to prepare for a completely… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
In college, I majored - I can't believe there is such a thing - in advertising. And I worked in advertising and… — Traylor Howard Copy Share Image
When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized… — Kyle Abraham Copy Share Image
I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a kind of an… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
We are moving in exactly the wrong direction in higher education. Forty years ago, tuition in some of the great American public… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated,… — Hank Nuwer Copy Share Image
Getting expelled from secondary school and going to a more arty-farty college gave me the incentive to perform and opened some doors. — Kayvan Novak Copy Share Image
I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during… — Anna Chlumsky Copy Share Image
I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew. — Gary Gulman Copy Share Image
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
We are now being paid for the sport we play which is a little different than college. So I think there's pressure… — Brady Quinn Copy Share Image
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar… — Kris Kristofferson Copy Share Image
Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to… — James Stone Copy Share Image
For five hundred years, Baghdad had been a city of palaces, mosques, libraries and colleges. Its universities and hospitals were the most… — John Bagot Glubb Copy Share Image
Later when I was in Mithibai College, Mumbai, I was a singer for a rock band. — Madhura Naik Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter where you're from. You can be from the hood or the suburbs. You can be poor with no education… — Lil B Copy Share Image
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. — Annie Baker Copy Share Image
So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter. — Andrew Delbanco Copy Share Image
It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm.… — Clyde Tombaugh Copy Share Image
I was fortunate in college to play as a freshman, but in the NBA, not a lot of rookies are coming in… — Joe Harris Copy Share Image
“In this neighbourhood people don't venture out after dark. It's not safe for them. Only the terminally stupid and the criminally motivated… — J.J. Bonds Copy Share Image
My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into… — Dean Norris Copy Share Image
In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation.… — JWoww Copy Share Image
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
College is an environment designed to encourage openness - the ability to think of things in novel ways and entertain unconventional beliefs. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the elimination of incentives such as parole, good time credits and funding for college courses, means that fewer inmates participate in… — Bobby Scott Copy Share Image
The whole point of college is to find yourself, to figure out things before you go into the real world. — Marcus Smart Copy Share Image
