University Quotes · Page 52

Education doesn't cease when you leave college or leave the university. Education is a lifetime process.

— Jim Rohn

In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that…

— Clayton Christensen

I always wanted to be the best at what I did; I wanted that at university, I wanted the first-class honour and…

— Sara Davies

Universities are set up to get people to work together by having them disagree with each other.

— Louis Menand

“Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to…

— Maria Montessori

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the…

— Maya Lin

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977

— Anita Hill

After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and…

— Hugh Dennis

After a year or two of keeping my head down and trying to pass myself off as a normal person, I made…

— Margaret Atwood

After graduate school, I joined Johnson & Wales University in Rhode Island as an assistant professor, but I continued to program in…

— Hilary Mason

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a…

— Gary Sinise

I live in Indiana and teach at Purdue University, a wonderful school with some of the brightest students I have ever had…

— Roxane Gay

The Nike swash that cost $30 and was designed by a Portland State University art student was probably worth that when she…

— Michael Bierut

Ideally, what you would like to have eventually is such a unique and identifiable brand that when someone says 'Indiana State University,'…

— Marc Edwards

I learned from master teachers at the University of Evansville, at Juilliard, at Shakespeare festivals all over the country, eventually landing at…

— Carrie Preston

Maybe I’ll come back as somebody else. I’ll be the wild-haired girl Adam meets in his first week at university. ‘Hi, are…

— Jenny Downham

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father…

— Thomas Jefferson

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

— Ralph Ineson

We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

— John Archibald Wheeler

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

— James Cronin

“I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill,” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel,” which would imply respect.”

— Frankie Bow

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

— Rick Ross

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

— John Stuart Mill

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

— Thomas Piketty

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

— Dolly Parton

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

— Robert Darnton

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don…

— Douglass North

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if…

— Eddy Merckx

English is not the primary language for universities in China, Korea, and Japan, but they are being evaluated on the basis of…

— Henry Rosovsky

I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the…

— Denise Austin

For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my…

— Vanessa Mae

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

— Andrew Delbanco

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor…

— John Edensor Littlewood

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

— Emma Bonino

Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important…

— Vanessa L. Williams

Someone thought that I dropped out of Harvard. I am a college dropout, but I dropped out of Temple University in Philadelphia.

— Paul F. Tompkins

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

— Thomas Jefferson

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to…

— James Hansen

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by…

— Kingman Brewster, Jr