Scholarship Quotes
235 Scholarship quotes by 207 unique authors
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I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys…
— Terry Porter
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was…
— Natasha Lyonne
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I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there on an athletic scholarship and chose…
— Uzo Aduba
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I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate…
— Susan Choi
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I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours…
— Michael W. Smith
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My grandparents and my mother were marvelous people, but they were not particularly demonstrative in their love. It was teachers who were affectionate and outwardly…
— Deval Patrick
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My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in…
— Blake Bailey
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If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going…
— Tim Finchem
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at…
— Harold E. Varmus
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Gerda Lerner was fierce, brilliant and unique. She lived history by her bravery, restored history by her scholarship, and democratized its study by her activism.
— Gloria Steinem
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There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance…
— Paul Di Filippo
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I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.
— Chuck Feeney
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I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
— Richard Flanagan
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They greatly respected scholarship in itself, but they also impressed upon us that there were great opportunities available for those who were well educated. I…
— Jerome Isaac Friedman
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For scholarship - if it is to be scholarship - requires, in addition to liberty, that the truth take precedence over all sectarian interests, including…
— John Charles Polanyi
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The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of…
— Lionel Blue
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I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in…
— Dan O'Brien
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
— Deborah Harkness
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I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong…
— Jack Bruce
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You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your favorite political party.…
— Mark Skousen
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The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was…
— Pankaj Patel
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This woman in love with scholarship intends, to be sure, that woman should acquire learning: but it must be for the purpose of developing her…
— Unknown Author
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All of your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be vain if at the same time you did not build your character…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I am bourgeois to the core and parochial beyond belief, and yet I am drawn to art and scholarship as my anti-type, my shadow, the…
— Robert Inchausti
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There should not be any trace of dislike or distrust on the score of nationality, language, caste, economic status, scholarship, age or sex.
— Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Who Wrote These Scholarship Quotes
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