Top 1200 Going To College Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

I think going to college for that one year was probable the best thing I have ever done.

I think it's a good way to sort of build your career and even when I was a young kid, I did the same thing, I looked at these guitar players, like ...I was a big fan of Steve Vai, and Al DiMeola, and said "What do those guys do?" and I found out that they went to Berkelee College of music, so I was like "Well, I'm going to go to Berkelee College of Music", and you try to, like, learn from those things, so... It's important.

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

College, for me, was more about wrestling than actually going to classes.

I'm not going to lie - it's insulting to be praised for being a 'woman' with 'no college degree.'

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

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.

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

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

I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.

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'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

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

One of my main reasons for going to college is to try to get a liberal arts background.

Playing college soccer was going to be the top of my athletic feats. I wasn't going to the Olympics. I was a decent player, but it's because of hard work, not because I was Freddy Adu. I wouldn't have a medal from the Olympics if I wasn't in a chair. I wouldn't have gone to the Olympics and experienced the whole atmosphere.

The signing bonus is a ton of money, especially for a 21-year-old. But I'm not going to live off that money. At some point, I'm going to live off a college degree.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

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.

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

I didn't learn acting. I was still in school/college, shooting and then going back to studies.

There are jobs here in Baltimore, but the problem is we don't have skilled people. Like the Port Covington initiative - that's 20 years out. I instituted initiatives as mayor that called for equities for minorities, increase minority opportunities, training. It's a good model to duplicate. Everybody doesn't want to go to college. A lot of our vocational programs don't have the latest technology. Students should begin freshman year in high school working on a plan for graduation - either going into an apprenticeship or college.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

We don't have great answers to what jobs will look like in 10, 20, 30 years. And I think it's right for people to have some anxiety in a world where driverless cars are going to take over. Like, how are you going - it's gotten really, how are you going to have a job in 10 years, and how are your kids going to have a job in 10 years, if you haven't gone to college or had a lot of hand-ups in the system, basically.

The bonds of friendship that I forged in my college days are still going strong.

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

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

Going to college and finding a good job no longer guarantee economic safety.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I don't wanna learn about more science and math. That's not why I'm going to college.

My family was really big on college, and it was hard for them to stomach that I was going to be a hairdresser.

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.

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

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.

42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

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

I didn't have a traditional college experience. I didn't have a social aspect to it. I was always involved in working and going to school.

I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college - really thought that was all I was ever going to do.

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

I grew up a lot by going to college. I was still really immature.

I was a struggling army wife going to community college who didn't know what to do with my life.

When I graduated college, I decided that I was going to try to be an actor, but it was my dirty secret.

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

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.

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.

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.

I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

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

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

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

I was a defensive lineman coming out of high school who was considered amongst the top... maybe the top six guys, top five guys, and wanted to prove to my team that I was going to be a top guy going into college.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

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?

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.

I'd been going to college for nine years, and before I completed my dissertation, I quit.

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