University Quotes · Page 11

I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.

— Malala Yousafzai

“My priority is not about grades. I seek yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

It is one thing to play for your university. It is another to play for your country.

— Jennie Finch

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

— Malcolm McDowell

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

— John Goddard

Victory is a good wine; defeat is a good university!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

If society has a technical need, that helps science forward more than ten universities.

— Paul A. Baran

I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.

— Elena Roger

I studied physics as an undergraduate, and after I graduated from Rice University, I was actually hired at the Johnson Space Center…

— Shannon Walker

Football was always a dream, but a distant dream until when I was about to go to university. I'd had a couple…

— Chris Smalling

It is time my colleagues got real. All British universities doing worthwhile research use animals, and, instead of hiding, they should be…

— Robert Winston

I didn't go to university. I didn't go to culinary school, barely made it through high school.

— Tom Douglas

I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.

— Harsha Bhogle

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of…

— Kamand Kojouri

Fanny and Alexander' blew me away. I was visiting my sister in her first year at university. It was my first foray…

— Emily Maitlis

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

— Skip Bayless

All over the world, as governments retreat from their traditional duty to foster the common good and reconceive of themselves as mere…

— J. M. Coetzee

Whereas students minds used to be the chief concern of colleges and universities, it is now more their bank accounts (more accurately,…

— George Leef

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able…

— Koichi Tanaka

Brighton has two universities. It's got a massive young, middle-class community, and the largest gay community in the UK. The result of…

— Peter James

I never wanted to go to university: books seemed to have all the answers, and the questions, too. I went to work…

— Joanna Lumley

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a…

— Anthony Burgess

I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing…

— Matt Mickiewicz

The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests,…

— Martin Luther

Of course, like all the informal inhabitants of the University the roaches were a little unusual, but there was something particularly unpleasant…

— Terry Pratchett

Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation…

— Douglas Houghton Campbell

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The Babson Institute, which is now an actual university, was started by this guy [my father] who also had a problem with…

— Paul Laffoley

Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to…

— Pat McCrory

David Blunkett and I both take the same view that it is scandalous that someone from North Tyneside, Laura Spence, with the…

— Gordon Brown

Now all of the ideas that I'm talking about, they are not radical ideas. Making public colleges and universities tuition free, that…

— Bernie Sanders

I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent…

— Jonathan Swift

I'd like to go to university. I'd like to do a bit of travelling.

— Will Poulter

I worked my way through college by throwing passes for the University of Kentucky.

— George Blanda

University should foster imagination and creativity, enriching society in the process.

— Owen Jones

I always say that I went to the College of Blossoms and the University of Ray Charles.

— Merry Clayton

When I went to university, I was a music major. Timpani was my specialty, and voice.

— Yasmin Aga Khan

I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities

— Dennis Prager

[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.

— Bill Ayers