Quotes and Sayings About College
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We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
-- Aaron Levie -
When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
-- Aaron Staton -
After 9/11, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 9/11, it changed.
-- Aaron TveitSource : "Aaron Tveit Will Be Received". Interview with Dawn Kay, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.
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The fact I want...no, I need for us to be exclusive until we part ways when we head off to college
-- Abbi Glines -
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.
-- Abraham Robinson -
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People look at me, and they go, 'You're white, you're smart, you must have went to college. You must have grown up with money.'
-- Adam Carolla -
Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.
-- Adam Carolla -
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college.
-- Adam DeVineSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.
-- Adam Kluger -
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When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
-- Adam Sandler -
The discipline of colleges and universities is in general contrived, not for the benefit of the students, but for the interest, or more properly speaking, for the ease of the masters. Its object is, in all cases, to maintain the authority of the master, and whether he neglects or performs his duty, to oblige the students in all cases to behave toward him as if he performed it with the greatest diligence and ability.
-- Adam Smith -
I took acting classes in my senior year in college and I loved it.
-- Adepero OduyeSource : "Q&A: 'Pariah' star Adepero Oduye is on the cups of stardom". Interview with Nigel Smith, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2011.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
-- Agnes de MilleSource : Agnes De Mille (2015). “Dance to the Piper”, p.79, New York Review of Books
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I went to a college in New York called New Paltz. I studied theater there for four years. I also studied privately in NYC with a teacher named Robert X. Modica.
-- Aida TurturroSource : "'The Sopranos' Aida Turturro talks about fighting hunger and her hit show". Live chat, www.cnn.com. March 20, 2001.
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My family was very supportive of my acting. They didn't really have a choice because I got jobs acting before anyone could really say anything. It paid my way through college and helped my family out.
-- Ajay Naidu -
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.
-- Al FrankenSource : Al Franken (2005). “The Truth (with jokes)”, p.60, Penguin
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Some of George W. Bush's friends say that Bush believes God called him to be president during these times of trial. But God told me that He/She/It had actually chosen Al Gore by making sure that Gore won the popular vote and, God thought, the Electoral College. 'That worked for everyone else,' God said.
-- Al Franken -
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I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
-- Al McGuire -
I just can't recruit where there's grass around. You gotta have a concrete lawn before I feel comfortable enough to go in and talk to you parents.
-- Al McGuire -
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My first college roommate greeted me with a shocked silence followed by, 'So. . .you're black.
-- Al Roker -
It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.
-- Alan Charles Kors -
My brother is the youngest member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. And I wouldn't let him cut my nails.
-- Alan King -
We also knew it would be difficult, because of the financial condition of the family, for me to go to college.
-- Alan Shepard -
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The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
-- Albert Einstein -
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.
-- Albert Maltz