Scholarship Quotes · Page 20

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for…

— Brian Urlacher

“In my qualified opinion as a Biblical scholar, there is 'massive' and overwhelming historical evidence that the New Testament manuscripts are in…

— R. Alan Woods

My father was brought to this country as an infant. He lost his mother as a teenager. He grew up in poverty.Although…

— Samuel Alito

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

— Cody Fern

Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study…

— Gloria Steinem

I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students…

— David Rubenstein

I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.

— Emeril Lagasse

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

— Jacques Barzun

Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the…

— James E. Faust

Player development is something that has always interested me having worked with the scholarship for many years earlier in my career and…

— Rob Burrow

I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.

— Jessica Mendoza

Mathematicians can and do fill in gaps, correct errors, and supply more detail and more careful scholarship when they are called on…

— William Thurston

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

— Frances McDormand

“According to the gospels, Christ healed diseases, cast out devils, rebuked the sea, cured the blind, fed multitudes with five loaves and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia.…

— M.I.A

Only when he has published his ideas and findings has the scientist made his contribution, and only when he has thus made…

— Robert K. Merton

I was trying to become a legitimate trumpet player, and I had a scholarship to Eastman School of Music. I was really…

— Frankie Avalon

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.

— Ronald Biggs

In Congress, there are some who are unashamed to aspire to eloquence, even to scholarship, but the only state legislator I ever…

— Molly Ivins

I didn't go to art school. I was a basketball scholarship, student-athlete, and both my parents were in the military. I had…

— RaMell Ross

John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War…

— Noam Chomsky

I had full rank scholarship to the University of Michigan, which anybody in the north will tell you, I don't know anyone…

— Brandi Rhodes

I got to perform the [Jaques] Ibert Concertino Da Camera with a brilliant pianist at school named Chunga. I got to perform…

— Jon Gordon

Year after year, you keep playing and I think when it gets to a scholarship, it kind of starts to get serious…

— Ben White

In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.

— Anatole France