University Quotes · Page 47

Ever since economists revealed how much universities contribute to economic growth, politicians have paid close attention to higher education.

— Derek Bok

My parents supported me through university, and after I graduated, I got a job as an analyst at a price comparison website…

— Rachel Riley

I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.

— Susan Orlean

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He…

— Abraham Lincoln

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

— Oscar Wilde

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same…

— Zachary Quinto

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

— Kate Cruise O'Brien

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

— Fiona Bruce

A lot of people want to know why did I leave the BBC: did I have an argument with them? No! I…

— Richard Quest

The [Burmese] government appears to be more interested in stamping out political activity than drug addiction. Very few university students on the…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

We once played Strathclyde University's student union where they had a crash barrier in front of the stage. I thought that was…

— Sam Lloyd

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact…

— Anonymous

And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives…

— John F. Kennedy

Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high…

— James Clavell

SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it…

— Kygo

When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major…

— Richard Meltzer

I studied opera for a year at Georgia State University, but I wasn't interested in that meticulous, technical approach to music. So…

— Lizz Wright

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

— Gordon Gee

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

— Shirin Ebadi

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to…

— Kunal Nayyar

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks.…

— Chick Corea

Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.

— Matt Sanchez

I was born in a University campus and seem to have lived all my life in one campus or another.

— Amartya Sen

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is…

— Vera Brittain

The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them…

— Malcolm X

Managing university finances is very tricky business. We're nonprofits. We're not supposed to accumulate large surpluses.

— Anonymous

I didn't finish university, I barely finished high school. All I know is from the books I've read, and the plays that…

— Jacob Elordi

I definitely enjoyed it and I am glad I did university - four years of not being in the public eye -…

— Iain Stirling

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They…

— Donald A. Norman

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never…

— Richard E. Grant

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach…

— Srikumar Rao

Education doesn't just take place in stuffy classrooms and university buildings, it can happen everywhere, every day to every person.

— Richard Branson

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot…

— Martha Reeves

There are people that borrow $36,000 to go to Trump University, and they are suing him now. Thirty-six thousand dollars to go…

— Marco Rubio

“All’università (allora, ma credo ancor oggi) le cose vanno all’opposto del mondo normale, non sono i figli che odiano i padri ma…

— Umberto Eco

“My friends, life is so serious that if you are not aware of whom you are, your "youniversity" will be prestigious but…

— Israelmore Ayivor

My mother never asked me whether I wanted to go to college, but told me I was going - to the University…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma.

— Paul Laffoley

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

— Anonymous

I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to…

— Natalie Massenet