Top 1200 Boston University Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I was the first person in my family to go to university so it was quite a big deal for us.

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

I backpacked around Thailand when I was a university student and have wanted to return ever since.

I made loads of English and Irish friends at university and all they wanted to do was have a good time.

God has a university. It's a small school. Few enroll; even fewer graduate.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

The only reason I wound up in Nashville and went to Belmont University is because that's where I needed to be.

Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.

Even throughout college and post-college, I've always been incredibly hyperactive. Even at Boston College, I was involved in so many different organizations and initiatives.

I'm so happy to be here and I want to bring championship football back to the University of Northern Colorado.

We believe that Liberty will redefine what is considered an academically prestigious university in the future.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

My parents came here from Colombia during a time of great instability there. Escaping a dire economic situation at home, they moved to New Jersey, where they had friends and family, seeking a better life, and then moved to Boston after I was born.

When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and then New York. But I've been to enough places to have gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and rich culture of all of Rhode Island. I am grateful for all that it offered during my childhood.

One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.

In my teens and university and stuff, video games became more realistic, or they started to.

The Khelo India University Games is a great way to unearth talent in this country.

The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.

I was a freelancer at CNN during the second semester of my senior year at George Washington University.

At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

I went to a little liberal-arts college in Missouri called Truman State University.

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

Any time there was a break from university I'd be doing some kind of outdoor job.

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

I've really gotten to play a lot of different things, starting with 'Southpaw.' For 'Spotlight,' I got to play this amazing journalist, Sacha Pfeiffer, who worked at the 'Boston Globe' when they broke the story about the sex scandal in the Catholic Church.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

I earned a Master's degree in Epidemiology from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2009.

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

The notion of the large, massive public university that can exist in isolated splendor is dead.

I started out as the president of a small college in Minnesota in 1947. And I had five years of experience at the college. Then we went to Los Angeles. And the press got to what we were doing. And I went to Boston, which is my next series of meetings. That was in 1950.

Deloitte University is really about leadership development. Our people love it!

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

The 'Daughter of the Regiment' that I did in Boston was vintage Sarah Caldwell, which is to say it was brilliant. Before my career was over, I'm sure I sang the role of Marie at least a hundred times, often in productions that cost a fortune, but none touched hers.

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture. When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

When I was a kid in Boston, it was one of the most anti-Semitic cities in the country. If you were living in the ghetto as I was, the Jewish ghetto part of Roxbury, and you went out alone at night, you might be subject to having people attacking you for being a Christ killer.

The Boston Globe is reporting that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry used to date actress Morgan Fairchild but it didn't work out. Apparently she couldn't handle dating someone with bigger hair then she had.

The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

Just because you're in college, or a university student, that does not mean you're the only thing you are.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

There is a unique energy surrounding the Boston Marathon that you can't help but feel. It includes every runner and every person along the course. It brings every person there together as one.

I was an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina and earned my degree in Experimental Psychology in 1988.

I have a degree in music, yeah, from the University of Montana. I studied voice and composition and conducting and all that.

I had to do four years of undergraduate. I went to Thomas Edison State University in Trenton.

Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

I was taking a break from university so I could play handball full-time for a year.

I am the head of development at Giant Spacekat, a Boston-based studio that's an industry leader in making games for women. We are passionate about creating narrative games for the avalanche of new consumers who don't fit the old gamer stereotype.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.

I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.