Top 1200 Off To College Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class. I'm nowhere near good enough to be a professional, but it's great to be in that environment. The discipline is so impressive.

I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.

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

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.

During college, I didn't really have an interest in what I was studying. It was during college that I first stumbled into forming an underground band where I was the lead vocalist. I had always had an ear for music, but nothing more than that. And that good ear of mine led me to learn and play a lot of instruments while in college.

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

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.

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

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

Without a lot of college film, a lot of people had written me off already. When the Patriots called, I was pretty happy.

If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.

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

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.

In college, I got better at playing the 2, kind of got a feel for it coming off screens, found my rhythm. Before that I was a natural point guard.

The biggest difference between college and pros is a lot more games and better competition day in, day out. You don't really have any nights off.

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.

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.

I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

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

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 didn't want to go to college, I didn't want to play football anymore, and I kind of just goofed off for about a year and a half.

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.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I had known a couple of people in college who went off the rails, who had significant bouts with mental illness.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

I was an All-American at three different weight classes in college. Started off at 149, then 157, and then finished up my senior year at 165.

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

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

The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.

I definitely want to continue being an actress. I love it. The reason I'm going to college is because I do want knowledge in another field. College isn't the college experience for me. I'm not going to be in a sorority. I'm not going to network. I'm not even really going to make my lifelong friends.

I was so sheltered as a kid that when I went to college, it was like taking the chains off. That's where the trouble came from. It was the first time for me being by myself, and I got into everything you could think of.

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.

In 1987, when I was 19, I was studying musical theater at Boston's Emerson College. My sister, Tricia Leigh, told me about a summer acting retreat in Italy. Mom paid, so off we went.

In college, I studied political science, policy, and law. My plan was to move to New York, pay off student debt in a year or two, and then run for office.

I want to go to college. I'm going to take four years off. I don't want to miss that. I want to be a writer. I think that'd be awesome.

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.

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

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

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.

I think college is an absolute. In this world you have to learn how to learn and get in the habit of always wanting to learn. Some kids have that out of high school and may be able to do the college equivalent of home schooling. Most kids can't. So I highly recommend going to college.

I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.

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

When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

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