Degree Quote by Mitch Albom

“After I graduated from Harvard, I enrolled in the school of journalism at Columbia University. I did that for my dad. He wanted his…

— Steven L. Kent

“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full,…

— Mitch Albom

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

— Jenna Bush

“At the back of my mind I wanted to be a journalist when I grew up since I didn’t seem to be getting any…

— Ian Colquhoun

“Soon after, I was emotionally checked out of journalism; the course of study I had put years of my life into was no longer…

— Bryan Bishop

“Journalism gave me another tool of exploration, another way of unveiling the laws that bound my body... And with journalism, I could directly ask…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Everyone goes into journalism for different reasons—and they’re often idealistic ones.”

— Thomas L. Friedman

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a…

— Richard M. Nixon

“My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to…

— Elizabeth Hernandez

“Writing is a passion. Nurture it. Fame is incidental.”

— Mehreen Ahmed

I had started writing for 'Sports Illustrated,' which was really my dream job growing up. But the writing probably read like I was auditioning…

— Steve Rushin

“Why did you become a journalist?” “Better than working for a living.”

— Leslie Cockburn