Top 1200 Community College Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Every community should have a superhero. And the truth is, for many of us in the Asian community, we didn't grow up with that.

When I was in college I wrote for a newspaper there called the 'Every Three Weekly,' which, like a lot of college humor papers, was sort of based on 'The Onion.'

The African-American community, the community within the inner cities has been so badly treated.

I was at Wesleyan first. I was there for a semester because I wanted that traditional college vibe. But when I got there, people would do normal college things, and I was like, 'I can't be here. This is a nightmare.'

Yea, I wrote my college thesis on why college athletes should get paid. I think there's a way to do it based on the amount of revenue they generate.

When you have a community that's strong in the arts, it brings all sorts of attention and different businesses into the community.

I went to college. West Point is technically a college.

I would like to help out in financial literacy for the Hispanic community and the athletic community.

In community after community, there are unemployment rates among young African-Americans of 30 to 40 percent. Thirty to 40 percent! Kids have no jobs, they have no future. That is an issue that has got to be dealt with simultaneously as we deal with police brutality, voter suppression and the other attacks that are taking place on the African-American community.

A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.

The people who care the most about the folks in your community are living in the community. They don't live in Washington, D.C.

If you're the most productive person in your community, it's definitely time to find a new community.

I actually started as a singer in Brooklyn, and I lived in a community. To get out of the ghetto of my community, I was a musician.

At a Texas college, a football field that was turned into a farm. The Tigers of Paul Quinn College lost more football games than they won on this field. So, years ago, when the historically black college on the South Side of Dallas was in financial crisis and had a 1 percent graduation rate, a new president turned everything over, including the football field.

An interesting reversal is happening right now. The college women who kicked all this off have been superseded in the mainstream media by celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie. And now a new group of college women - the ones in college now - are looking at Paltrow and Jolie as models for the appropriate way of dealing with sexual predators.

Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

At the end of the day, the more quality individuals you develop in the community, the better off the community should be.

You cannot police a community without effectively working with the community.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

For me I was always a smart nerdy kid. I wasn't the smartest and I wasn't the nerdiest, but I was a smart nerdy kid my whole childhood, and I definitely wanted to be somehow involved with reading the rest of my life, and I came from a community, I lived in a community, I was part of a community where reading was considered completely alien.

I've said that the era of the inevitable closure of community hospitals is over because I want community hospitals increasingly to become community health hubs where you have the physios, some of the day cases, the GPs, mental health services and some of the charity-provided services like Aid UK.

However, community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another. Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own. The question, therefore, is not 'How can we make community?' but, 'How can we develop and nurture giving hearts?'

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

You can expect to see a robust discussion and representation of those issues throughout the convention program. Not just from the nominee, but through other vehicles as well. Expect to see the African-American community, the Latino community, the LGBT community, and others represented on stage and in the substance of our policies throughout the week.

The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil.

I am ambitious, and I'm excited for my career to grow, and I do want to represent the Asian community and the Filipino community.

I don't see myself only as a member of the New Orleans community. I see myself as a part of the human community. I see myself as a part of the community that's trying to put things in the world that add value to people's lives.

The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community our companions are chosen for us.

I didn't know what to expect coming to college. High school was pretty easy and I guess I expected college to be along the same route. It was just an overwhelming experience.

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

I graduated from college when I was 20. To get enough money to finish college, I went into the ROTC, and I was an officer in the Air Force before I could buy a drink.

A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.

I had no desire to coach college until I went to college. Then I said, 'Maybe I can do this.' You get inspired by the people around you who move you and light a fire under you.

We're professional athletes. I feel like I got treated better in college wrestling. I had a physical therapist on hand at all times, no matter what, when I was in college.

I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community - by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

About a year after I retired from playing, I decided that I wanted to getback to college, where I had the greatest time of my life, and to get involved with college football.

Every time you make a jump, whether it's from high school to college or college to the NBA, you're going to hear questions about your athletic ability.

A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.

Like most people, I have no wish to live in a community organized by community organizers.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.

The deaf community and the hearing community, there's not always a ton of interaction.

A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.

While a great many other ideas and measures are of prime importance for the good life of the community, that which concerns its architectural expression is the notion of the community as limited in numbers, and in area... To express these relations clearly, to embody them in buildings and roads and gardens in which each individual structure will be subordinated to the whole - this is the end of community planning.

I think that the anti-Semitic problem in the British Muslim community is worse than among the community at large.

In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

Yeah, there was a six-year period where I was pretty much done with show business. During college and then for about two years after college.

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

Forgiveness flounders because I exclude the enemy from the community of humans and myself from the community of sinners.

There's as much great authorship in the filmmaker community as in the literary community, and I'd love to welcome more filmmakers into the fold.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

And I've always been very close to my friends and allies in the black community, the Latino community and organized labor.