College Quotes - page 2

No one should be denied the opportunity to get an education and increase their earning potential based solely on their inability to pay for a college education. (Bobby Scott)
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. View quote
Bobby Scott
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. View quote
Bobby Scott
Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace. View quote
Barbara Mikulski
I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. View quote
David Hyde Pierce
Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. View quote
Elton Gallegly
Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college. View quote
Elton Gallegly
I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there. View quote
Edwin Moses
The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals. View quote
Leonard Boswell
Aaron and I will be joined at the hip until the day we die. We have loved and hated each other since the day he was born. He's very much a part of my heart. He's going to broadcasting college now, and he'll do fine. But he came into a world that did not welcome him. View quote
Lynn Johnston
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place. (Matthew Sweet)
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days. View quote
Otis Blackwell
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments. View quote
Philip Emeagwali
For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. View quote
Patrick J. Kennedy
I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. View quote
Robert Scheer
And sex is definitely part of college life. View quote
Scott Speedman
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree. View quote
Ted Shackelford
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. View quote
Verne Troyer
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. View quote
Victoria Jackson
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it. View quote
Daniel Webster
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises. (Ken Thompson)
Our country as a whole, no less than the Hastings College of Law, values tolerance, cooperation, learning, and the amicable resolution of conflicts. But we seek to achieve those goals through "[a] confident pluralism that conduces to civil peace and advances democratic consensus-building," not by abridging First Amendment rights. View quote
Samuel Alito
When we make college more affordable, we make the American dream more achievable. View quote
Bill Clinton
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance. View quote
William James
How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? View quote
Sylvia Plath