Top 1200 Going To College Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

Arctic Monkeys are actually one of my favourite bands going, which is really weird cos I went to school and college with them.

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 snowboard because I love it. It's just a cool way to be out there and doing something different instead of going to college.

Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Going from college to being on national TV almost fresh outta school, it happened really fast.

In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.

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 think, initially, my rebellion, my rebellion of going to college when my dad would have liked me to stay home and work in the herbs, I think that it was a pretty mild rebellion in the sense that I thought, 'Well, I'm going to go learn how to be a music teacher so that I can come home and do choir.'

I attended college in prison. I was in jail, so there ain't no going to no classes. They have programs in certain facilities where you can earn good time, and then you get time taken off your sentence. But as far as going to classes, it's not like that. You study, and then an administrator gives you a test. I got a Master's in psychology.

Psychology was going to be my minor in college. I've always been really interested in the human mind, which is probably why I'm an actor.

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.

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.

I think traveling made me who I am. When I was 16, I was an exchange student in England, and that was the year that I kind of feel like I was on the road going one direction in life, and it just kind of shifted me over, and I finished high school, and I went traveling for three more years instead of going to college.

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college.

I went to college. West Point is technically a 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.

Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

Me going to college, I think, was a great idea. I went only for two years, but I was able to mature both on and off the court.

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.

Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.

My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.

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.

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.

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.

I thought I was going to be a poet when I was in college, but then I found out I was poor so I decided to do something I'd get paid for.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

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 had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

My favorite college experience was probably leaving college.

I think in high school and college, you don't really know what your routine is going to be; you're still trying to come up with it.

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.

I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.

Going to college and living with someone of another race gave me a different view of what people have to go through.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.

I graduated high school early, and I moved to New York before I even knew I was going to college or anything.

A lot of students who are 18 or 19 go to college partly for the social aspect of it. At the community college, people's goals are a little different. Their needs are more immediate.

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.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school - my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.

Going to college was never an option. I was passionate about music, but how much talent I actually had was another matter.

I always thought I was going to be a soccer player, get a scholarship to college, and then join the U.S. women's team.

I was going to college. But to be, like, a psychologist, wanting to help people but also just kind of not being my parents.

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.'

My music teacher told me that she didn't even know why I was going to college - I should be a stand-up.

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 plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.

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.

College is a magic time. Yes, you're young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.

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.

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.

When I was in college, the Kargil War had just happened, and I remember going with my friends on a bike to collect empty shells.

I approached the idea of college with the expectation of taking part in an intellectual feast. ... In college, in some way that I devoutly believed in but could not explain, I expected to become a person.

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

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.'

Draft night for me - I watched it in my dorm in college. And it started off with just me and a friend, because I knew I probably wasn't going to get picked right away. I thought it was going to be a little later. But, you know, you watch the whole thing. You never know what might happen, so you gotta watch.

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.

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didnt finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.