College Quote by Bob Monkhouse

My mum wanted me to go to university.

— Florence Welch

My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have…

— Lynda Barry

I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

“This is the strange thing about life after university. It feels like you've just fallen off a conveyor belt of nonstop academic landmarks, and…

— Iain Hollingshead

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want…

— Bill Gates

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

— Seamus Heaney

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom…

— David Sedaris

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final…

— Nina Bawden

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my…

— Simon Callow

Remember passing notes? Having it read in the front of the classroom was the worst.

— Raghib Clitso

PARENT:what did you learn today?STUDENT:apparently not enough we have to go back tomorow :(

— Anonymous

On the street where I lived, they almost didn't know the word 'university,' and my mother was simply appalled when it was suggested to…

— Eileen Atkins