Scholarship Quotes

235 Scholarship quotes by 207 unique authors

I went to the University of San Francisco on an athletic scholarship. I didn't study in high school. I was just there to get by… — Michael Franti
I was a scholarship minor public school day boy at Ardingly College and later Whitgift School. Then, straight into work as a journalist - a… — Neil Gaiman
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars… — Henry Louis Gates
And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance. — David Duke
Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men. — Warren Farrell
My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study… — Salma Hayek
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. — Robert A. Heinlein
I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama,… — Anthony Hopkins
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I… — Quincy Jones
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. — Billie Jean King
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9… — Billie Jean King
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all… — Shia LaBeouf
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school. — Emeril Lagasse
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. — James Russell Lowell
I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics.… — Danica McKellar
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course. — Viggo Mortensen
The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons… — Martina Navratilova
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay… — Edward Norton
If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if… — Barack Obama
There's always someone out there training for your spot. For my scholarship at the University of Florida, for my job with the Denver Broncos, for… — Tim Tebow
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. — Henry David Thoreau
I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based… — J C Watts
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. — Woodrow Wilson
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent… — Michael Eric Dyson
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the… — Shelby Foote

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