Top 1200 College Degree Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Up until I was a junior at Georgia, I felt that when all was said and done, I'd at least have a college degree to fall back on when tennis was finished.

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!

It seems everyone knows a college degree is important, but few have a plan to keep it affordable.

After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.

I left school December of 1988. I was 21 at the time. And I hadn't quite finished my degree because I had done eight semesters, not understanding that I was going to have to finish the degree without the TAPP and Pell grant money that I had been using towards paying for much of my college tuition. And I didn't have any money. So I said, "Alright." And circumstances there were such that I thought it was maybe time to move on anyway.

We know that a college degree is rapidly becoming the price of admission to the global economy.

A college degree was very important for them; it wasn't for me. So I picked English because I'm fluent. I thought it would be the easiest to do.

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

I really do put it on Bill Clinton's presidency as the time when the Democrats became the party of the college degree as the key to success in life.

Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

My interest in science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. degree studies in college while I was in my early teens.

I had a degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where they said, 'Mr. Jordan, please learn to pronounce your degree.' 'Cause I said I have a degree in 'thee-a-ter.'

U-M has provided me the chance to live my dream of playing college basketball and to earn a Michigan degree.

I love the book signings, you know, because I get to talk to real people, and a staggering number of people have said something very specific to me. "The Family Leave Law saved my family," or "Made our lives better," or, "The education aid that you provided made it possible for me to go to college." One man at 50 years of age got his college degree.

Instead of walking like you're limping, talking yang about me why don't you take your monkey ass and get a college degree?

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

I went to school for creative writing in college, and I wound up about six hours short of my degree.

When I'm talking about the white working class, here's what I'm defining: high school degree, no more, and working in a blue-collar job or a low-skilled service job. When I'm talking about the white, upper-middle class, I'm talking about people who work in the professions or managerial jobs and have at least a college degree.

Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

You can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. You can't have an economy that over the last three years keeps slowing down its growth rate. You can't have kids coming out of college, half of them can't find a job today, or a job that's commensurate with their college degree. We have to get our economy going.

a college education I would never propose - a bachelor's degree won't even keep you in clothes

A college degree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it.

In college, where I graduated with a Fashion Merch & Business & Bachelors of Science Degree, I was bored. I just couldn't work a nine-to-five job.

Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

From the time I was 18, I knew I wanted to be a comedian, but I was just scared to try it. And first I thought, 'Well, I should go to college and get a degree.' That didn't pan out.

My mom is surely worried that the fact that I don't have a college degree will impact my chances of finding a bride.

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.

If I got hurt or anything, I was going to need a college degree. Nothing was going to stop me from getting that.

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.

My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.

I'd done some acting in high school. Then I went to Kenyon College and got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years. Got my degree in speech; they didn't actually have a degree in theater. I graduated at two o'clock in the afternoon, and at three-thirty I was on the train for Williams Bay, Wisconsin, for summer stock, and then I did winter stock.

A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a college degree.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens.

I did a drama degree, went to secretarial college, then got a job with a theatre company in Birmingham. It's been a slow burn, which doesn't seem to have gone out.

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens.

You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

You don't need a college degree to be a good carpenter, welder, plumber, auto mechanic, member of the armed forces, or firefighter.

A high school and college degree are linked to greater employment prospects, higher earning potential, and the ability to contribute more to our communities.

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.

Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

We have a society that wants somebody to come out of college with a degree that will make them a slave for whatever discipline they're in.

My advice to the college kids would be make sure you get your degree and then go after the dream.

I'm definitely somebody who wants a college degree. My attitude is, if I'm going to do it I'm going to go full in.

A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life.

The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.

I have listened to college radio quite a lot. I never went to college, so actually the college radio station is sort of like the closest I got to some kind of college experience.