Top 1200 Boston University Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

As we grow up, we're constantly defining ourselves. In my case: Caucasian, male, born in Iowa, live in Boston, Zen Buddhist, good at learning languages. With countless labels, I build up this creation I call my self.

I said to my doctor at the beginning, 'I'm no good; I can't do anything. I'm dumb.' He suggested I try educating myself by listening to Boston's educational TV station. He said I had a perfectly good mind.

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.

When you went into a Boston Chicken and ordered quarter-chicken, white, with mash and corn, when that was rung up, that would signal all the way along the supply chain the need for more potatoes to be put on a truck a thousand miles away.

In 1986 I went to study at the Delhi University and that's where I took up theatre seriously.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

My favorite band at the moment is the Dresden Dolls, they're from Boston. It's a guy and a girl. She plays piano and he plays the drums and she also sings. You can find them on the web they're incredible.

I've started to read more factual books, partly because I didn't go to university.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.

Who is Hunter Becker?" "Becker the Gory? Lighthouse Keepers? Boston?" "I would've preferred Becker the Easiley Surrendering or Becker the Quite Reasonable, but beyond that his name tells me nothing.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

I interned at NBC News and had a great experience there in both New York City and Washington. After graduating, I got an entry-level production job at PBS in Boston. There, I developed the bug for programming and production.

Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found.

Crafter's Companion started life as a big dream in my little university bedroom.

When I grew up it was Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls, the Lakers, the Boston Celtics, those were the teams you loved or hated and me being from San Diego, you loved the Lakers.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

I am deeply indebted to Georgetown University and the basketball program for all they have done for me.

A friend who used to be my customer told me one day: "I promise I am going to help you to be relocated." He's a realtor and after he bought two buildings in the business district in Boston, he said: "Are you ready for your next place?" I could not believe it.

I wanted to be a veterinarian and go to school in Boston. It didn't quite work out that way, and I ended up joining the Navy as a suggestion of my big brother. It was really awesome - and I didn't realize it at the time, -but provided a lot of leadership and followership teamwork opportunities.

Bostonians vs. Chicagoans, they have different sensibilities, and I can only say this because I consider myself a Bostonian. You know, the Puritanical roots in Boston - the 'sky is falling' mentality a little bit. We could be on a great run, and we'd lose one game, and everyone's panicking.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

The first thing that I remember auditioning for was a weather commercial in Boston, and I got the job. The idea of the commercial was that you ought to watch the weather in the morning so that you know what's gonna come later in the day.

I brought together experts from health care, business, academic institutions, and the community to develop a comprehensive blueprint for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care in the City of Boston.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Most people don't know this but over the course of time, the official of the race in 1967 in Boston, who attacked me Jock Semple and I became very good friends. That gave me a whole new perspective on forgiveness.

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

What you've lost sight of is what you are, and what you are is what you hate. You're the 10-time WWE Champion! You're the man! You, like the Red Sox, like Boston, are no longer the underdog! You're a dynasty. You are what you hate. You have become the New York Yankees!

I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

My mother, when she was younger, worked at Filene's in Boston. And she was chief cashier. And I always wondered why she never went back to some kind of work 'cause that was a very responsible position.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him.

I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.

I'm really proud of what we are building at the University of Houston, and hope I spend the rest of my career here.

The future consists of cross specialisation; that is how university systems abroad have evolved.

I always wanted to travel around and see lots of America, I'd never been to Boston, I'd never been to San Francisco even, so I'm quite excited to just go the places.

You could do all the internships in the world but if you're not very bright, you might not get into the University of Chicago.

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

We should be demilitarizing the Boston police in weapons and tactics, and interactions with community. We should be reining in ballooning overtime for the police- a part of the city budget that has been eating into other necessary investments.

Leaders of organizations with leftist ideologies should not be allowed to enter Panjab University.

I willed myself through a junior college to a university and, ultimately, a Ph.D.

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

It's not easy to embarrass the University of Arkansas. The place is basically a truck stop with a quad.

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture windows, adopt pets and Boston ferns, and scent everything that touches our lives.

I never went to class. That the university graduated me at all is an indictment of our educational system.