Top 458 Colleges Quotes & Sayings

I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.

Community colleges are the way of the future.

Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.

And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

I recommend that you change colleges.

Community colleges are great bargains. They avoid the fancy amenities four-year liberal arts colleges need in order to lure the children of the middle class.

Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.

There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

I've said it before, but community colleges are the best-kept secret in the nation.

One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.

There is a stigma attached to community colleges, and we do need to change the narrative.

Colleges have a twofold duty when it comes to dealing with censorship. First, there is the duty to not censor the free expression of ideas, especially important and newsworthy ones. Second, colleges have the duty to protect speakers from being silenced by others. Century has failed miserably on both counts.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

My message is get into what you love and really want to do and can do. And there are these tests you can take for that. All the colleges have them.

I have a plan to make tuition debt-free for public colleges and universities.

The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education.

So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus.

Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.

If colleges wanted to admit only legacies, or only tuba players, or only people who got astonishingly low SAT scores ' to ensure some of their graduates would be U.S. senators one day ' the Constitution wouldn't stop them. What the states, including state colleges, cannot do under the Constitution is discriminate on the basis of race.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

I feel it has become increasingly competitive. There are some insane cut-offs to get into a lot of colleges.

It's always extremely interesting to speak at colleges. My books are taught in many colleges in America and are part of the educational system, so it's really important to me. I don't believe in so many things in life, but something I believe in is education.

I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere.

Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.

The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals.

I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

I've never claimed that this is investment art. When we first started out, all the art colleges and universities across the country would sort of badmouth what we were doing. It's funny that a lot of them now are sending us letters saying, 'We may not totally agree with the way you paint, but we appreciate what you're doing, because you're sending literally thousands of people into art colleges.'

It outlines the fact that we are twins, we grew up together, but then we went to different colleges and went in separate directions.

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

I was a maverick. I went to five different colleges looking for I don't know quite what.

Colleges take kids' money. It's that simple.

I want to spend my time at colleges and universities.

Elite colleges like Stanford are extremely inaccessible. They're failing in their mission to provide access.

When I go to colleges for talks, I encourage the students to drop out.

Community colleges are certainly one of America's best-kept secrets.

For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.

The last thing the NFL wants to do is make problems for the colleges.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.

Enrollment in colleges, especially black colleges, across the country increased tremendously during the five-year run of 'A Different World,' and I don't think you could have a better legacy than that.

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow.

Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.

Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.

I grew up in Orangeburg, South Carolina, which has the proud distinction of being the home to two of the eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities in the state: South Carolina State University and Claflin University. When I was a kid riding around town with my grandfather, we often drove by the colleges.

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

We need to send hundreds of millions of dollars down to our public high schools, vocational colleges, and community colleges to begin training people in the green-collar work of the future - things like solar-panel installation, retrofitting buildings that are leaking energy, wastewater reclamation, organic food, materials reuse and recycling.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

I applied to zero colleges.

Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.