Scholarship Quotes · Page 14

I was born in Chicago, then I spent most of my youth in Joliet, Illinois which is about thirty minutes south, and…

— Adam Rapp

I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I…

— Summer Glau

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can’t make…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

I applied for a scholarship to Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. I knew I was good enough, but they turned me…

— Nina Simone

[Wendy] Davis [pursued] higher education, as her campaign website says, with 'the help of academic scholarships, student loans, and state and federal…

— Liza Mundy

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a…

— Shelby Foote

When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from,…

— Gary Oldman

At 13, I was a big, totally uncoordinated, hopeless football player. I responded to somebody elses rules, and I stayed just good…

— Brian Dennehy

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Jacob Bronowski

Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms,…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

— Malala Yousafzai

You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your…

— Mark Skousen

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

— Ellen Wilkinson

I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got a writing…

— Zoe Lister-Jones

I had actually gone to a church-related college, but I went on a football scholarship, not because of any interest in the…

— R. C. Sproul

I definitely think I'm kind of more of an East Coast player than a West Coast player. But I knew at a…

— Jared Dudley

The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

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

— Israel Shenker

For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all…

— John Charles Polanyi

“This is insanity!" "No, this is scholarship!”

— Brandon Sanderson

So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the…

— Henry Louis Gates

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

— Umar

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

In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around…

— Mary Ellen Mark