Best Colleges Quotations
167 Colleges quotes by 137 unique authors
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Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because…
— Emanuel Cleaver
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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of…
— Jack L. Chalker
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State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher…
— Arne Duncan
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People look at me like I'm crazy when I say that our greatest partnership here at Ohio State should be with the community colleges.
— Gordon Gee
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I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't…
— Bryce Dallas Howard
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The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure…
— Kay Hagan
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Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
— Kent McCord
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The rule in the women's colleges was that after 7 p.m. all men were beasts. Up until 7 p.m. they were all angels, and the…
— Harry Gordon Johnson
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So community colleges are accessible, they're available, they're affordable, and their curriculums don't get stuck. In other words, if there's a need for a certain…
— George W. Bush
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I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.
— Spencer Dryden
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I was very pleased with the entire selection process. The manner in which it was conducted included all parts of United States' basketball, from the…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach
— Will Rogers
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Americans have always built for the future. That is why we established land grant colleges and passed the Homestead Act to open our Western lands…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox…
— Peter Medawar
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If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with…
— William Hazlitt
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Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
— Jeff Foxworthy
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The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced…
— Jennifer Granholm
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The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars…
— Gail Collins
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Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
— Bob Dylan
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And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe…
— Clint Eastwood
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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
— Barack Obama
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Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.
— Barack Obama
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