Scholarship Quotes · Page 5

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

— Eve Torres

It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.

— Juan Cole

I was the last one to get a scholarship out of my year - at 14, I think. I couldn't play up…

— Kyle Walker

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

— Neil Sedaka

Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

An athletic scholarship shouldn’t be the best opportunity to receive a quality education.

— Jalen Rose

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

— Israel Shenker

The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th…

— Pankaj Patel

If you do happen to get a scholarship or get a few offers, don't choose the school that is the biggest school.…

— Donovan Mitchell

My mum supported me after she saw I was doing good in weightlifting, I was able to get a scholarship, I was…

— Hidilyn Diaz

Scholarship cannot do without literature… It needs literature to float it, to set it current, to authenticate it to all the race,…

— Woodrow Wilson

Mainstream economics scholarship produces theory without facts ("pure theory") and facts without theory ("applied economics").

— Michel Chossudovsky

They didn't have a lot, but my grandparents taught me the important stuff: that hard work and character, matter. When I got…

— Jaime Harrison

For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be…

— Camille Paglia

Adrienne Mayor's inquiry into the myth--and surprising reality--of Amazon women begins with the fierce Greek huntress Atalanta, but takes us deep into…

— Steven Saylor

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family.…

— Brian Blessed

Another big difference about not being in college: In college, you're on the team, you're competing for the NCAA - luckily I…

— Jonathan Horton

Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz…

— W. H. Auden

I went to USC. I wasn't a rich kid or anything like that, so I had to get a scholarship. Went to…

— Brian Grazer

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that…

— Jim Jarmusch

College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh…

— Diana Palmer

In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one…

— William A. Henry III

I studied theatre at Glasgow University and then was lucky enough to land a scholarship with a theatre group in Edinburgh.

— John Tiffany

If I hadn't received a scholarship in football, I would have received it in track. It is actually my favorite sport.

— Randall Cunningham

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

— Billie Jean King

I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.

— Scott Brooks

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

— Jacques Barzun

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

— Ellen Wilkinson

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.

— Abe Lemons

I've had a lot of experience building things, organizing things, a national scholarship program.

— Benjamin Carson

I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

— Maxwell Jacob Friedman

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

— Cody Fern

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

— Jack Nicklaus

I went into the military because I didn't get a scholarship, a basketball scholarship I thought that I would get.

— Carl Hart

“Wishing to prove oneself right is the usual motive for scholarship.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

I was always more of a film guy than an athlete guy. I had an art scholarship at Western.

— Terry Crews

I told myself I was going to get a scholarship so I could get a degree and take care of my family.

— Demaryius Thomas

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

— Jonathon Keats