College Quotes · Page 96

People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up…

— Adam Carolla

As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances,…

— Jill Biden

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all…

— Jacob Latimore

Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory - and I'm so sorry to have to…

— Adam Richman

When I was in college, the Roots, the sui generis ensemble from Philadelphia encompassing all manner of black music, played a show…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

College is so different from the NBA. You have three guys coming at you and trapping all over the place, and NBA…

— Buddy Hield

There's one thing my old man taught me and it's the best thing he taught me. It wasn't education at college or…

— Marcus Wareing

I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the…

— Debbie Macomber

I've always loved doing research. I remember doing a research project on the Babylonian numeral system in the eighth grade and thinking,…

— Emily Oster

It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered…

— Patricia Hill Collins

I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I…

— Norman Finkelstein

I was a good student but I was also one of those people that could not got to class and then the…

— Jeff Kendrick

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web…

— Lena Dunham

My father once told me of a trick question he used in a college class on forest fire control. If there was…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

I'm a product of state schools. I had a working-class family. We had no books. I was the first to go to…

— T.C. Boyle

“Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.”

— Molly Ringle

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

— Allan Bloom

Refinancing won't fix everything that's broken with our [American] higher education system. We've got to bring down the cost of college. And…

— Elizabeth Warren

I know you think that a quarter-life crisis is thought to happen when you finish college. Well, mine started around the time…

— Keeley Hazell

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor…

— Josh Lieb

When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an actor. I actually studied acting when I was at…

— Tom Ford

In my village, girls have limited opportunities. If they get admission in a college, only a few households would allow them to…

— Geeta Phogat

Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, is right there... she's in town because her father was at Johnson Smith College... and she…

— Al Michaels

Like many athletes, I played in college for the chance to play in the pros. In the years since I retired, I've…

— Pat Toomay

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

I was never asked to join the Editorial Cartoonists Of America. No fraternity would have me in college, either. I think they…

— Berkeley Breathed

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a…

— D. H. Lawrence

In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the…

— Anthony Bourdain

Athletes who take to the classroom naturally or are encouraged to focus on grades should be able to do well in the…

— Rebecca Lobo

In college, I was up under this microscope everywhere I went. I couldn't go to class without somebody stalking me or asking…

— Jameis Winston

When I got out of college and signed a contract to play pro football in the USFL, the first thing I bought…

— Jim Kelly

I picked up reading late because I grew up dyslexic. When I went to college, a friend who was a big reader…

— Lee Pace

I really didn't have a favorite Major League catcher in college, but I would watch a lot of games. If one was…

— Buster Posey

If the BDS Movement was isolated to a few tenured college outliers, that would be easy enough to handle. Unfortunately, it is…

— Thom Tillis

Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University's board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

When I was in college, I wanted to study film. My first passion was to be a cinematographer. So maybe there's something…

— Mat Kearney

When I started out, I had no idea what I was doing. I was 16, and acting was a new, exciting thing.…

— Krystle D'Souza

I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether…

— Esai Morales

I came to the Steelers after four years of high school and four years of college, and now I look on my…

— Joe Greene