Top 1200 College Graduates Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students.

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

College isn't the only answer. Reading is a college that you can and should attend all your life.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

I boxed through college and I played college level football. I was a linebacker.

If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

It's important to invest in our kids who are going to go to college or community college or a trade school.

Without the AJGA, it would be very difficult for the college coaches to find us. Every junior golfer around the country knows about the AJGA and knows that's the way to get to college. And the way to get beyond college.

Before I myself went to college I had never seen but one college woman. I had heard that such a woman was staying at the house of an acquaintance. I went to see her with fear. Even if she had appeared in hoofs and horns I was determined to go to college all the same. But it was a relief to find this Vassar graduate tall and handsome and dressed like other women.

Everyone has relationships. Breakups are hard. Everyone graduates from school.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I was a first-generation college student. This was supposed to be the ticket to prosperity. But it wasn't. I left college with a mountain of debt and no practical skills.

I went to Boston College. It's a Catholic college, yeah I had a nickname there: Jew.

Yeah, I actually went to college. I went to Southwest Community College in Memphis; I tried to go to TSU, and they denied me.

Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting.

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.

The most important factor in college admissions is a test that benefits those who are least prepared for college.

I went to Brighton College, Shoreham College for one year, then to Spring Valley High School in Las Vegas for a couple of years.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?

New York is a highly educated city. People who are educated generally go to college. People who go to college who are men love college football.

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

I kicked college nostalgia in my late 20s. As much as I loved college and treasure the memories, I no longer want to go back.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

My dad painted cars for a living, and my mom graduated from college when I was a college freshman myself.

My mother was very strong on me to go to college. No one had ever been to college, including my parents.

We have a foundation, the Soledad O'Brien Starfish Foundation. We send girls to and through college. We started-off saying we send girls to college, but to do so is not enough. Seeing them through college is the key.

Before college, I was Cyndi, and then I think I went to college and I was like, 'You know what? Now I'm Cynthia.'

I think in terms of chapters. Every time I finish a movie, it's a chapter. When one of my kids graduates from school, that's a chapter.

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

A degree in Liberal Arts has long been considered the most adaptable, with humanitarian and societal studies that prepare graduates to enter a wide variety of careers.

The Barefoot College is supposed to be a sparking off process. People are adopting it and owning it, which is really the story behind the college.

One of the biggest questions that we hear from young graduates is, 'I'm not even sure where to start because I'm not quite sure who I want to be yet.'

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Please don't misunderstand, I actually enjoyed the hecticness and the opportunity to cover women's college basketball. But the reality is as a young broadcaster the vast majority of my games came in men's college basketball and my viewership as a fan came in men's college basketball because that was what was available to me.

If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

I did science at the junior college level but switched to a bachelor's in mass media at MMK College, Bandra.

Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship. He didn't want to listen.

I think what I wanted mostly to experience in college is playing college basketball and learning.

I'll be eager to definitely be in the mix of kickoff return. I did it in college. I was able to help my team out in college in that area.

I love it! You know, when I tour college campuses, I always find that the prettiest girls in the room are the ones in the College Republicans.

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

While I was in college, I was intrigued by modelling and also won the best model award in my college.

I really wasn't convinced I even needed college. I was really miserable for awhile. But before school, coach Chesbro talked to me. He told me I really needed college, especially since I want to be a college coach some day.

I'm not even an engineer. I don't have a college degree; I hire guys with college degrees.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.