Imperial Quote by Richard Flanagan

I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.

— Duffy Daugherty

The Rhodes scholarship process was very extensive. I had to do several personal statements, rewrite those over and over and over again. I had…

— Myron Rolle

When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.

— Rachel Simmons

The Rhodes is something I've always really wanted. I would never have applied for it if I didn't really want to go. The opportunity…

— Myron Rolle

I went to Oxford University - but I've never let that hold me back.

— Margaret Thatcher

I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial…

— Justin Cartwright

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…

— Michael Smith

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies…

— Harold E. Varmus

Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was classics. So I went to Oxford to…

— Bernard Williams

As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself…

— Myron Rolle

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

— Zhang Xin

I studied at Howard. I studied at Oxford.

— Chadwick Boseman