Top 1200 Oxford University Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 16, 2024.
When I went to the University, the medical school was the only place where one could hope to find the means to study life, its nature, its origins, and its ills.
When it came time to go to university, I wanted to study cinema studies and theater and not necessarily do a fine arts degree.
The irony is that [Barack] Obama was a law professor at the University of Chicago. He would, most of all, know that what he is doing weakens the Constitution.
Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to any student group that advances causes contrary to its mission.
As a graduate student at Harvard, I had to explain quite a few times that I was allowed to attend a university as a woman in Iran.
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.
I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.
Indeed I have always found that the only thing in regard to Toronto which faraway people know for certain is that McGill University is in it.
Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.
A lot of my skills came from university. We did everything from stage work to operating the sound boards to marketing shows and more.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
The publication of the Revised New Testament by the two University Presses on May 17, 1881, was the most sensational in the annals of publishing.
University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling.
I'm very proud to tell you guys I have been accepted into Stanford University, one of the main institutions of learning and research in the world.
I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii.
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
Misguided liberal Joseph Stiglitz.Columbia University professor and Nobel Prize winner, claims the American dream is dead.
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
I gravitated to New York City in the late '70s to pursue a career in visual art, which is what I trained in at university.
Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn
As a former college president, I am well aware that every university is a complicated ecosystem, not a linear widget factory.
It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.
I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.
I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.
A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.
As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism. It's part of what drew me here after university.
In 1952, I was appointed Professor at the University of Bonn and Director of the Physics Institute, with very good students waiting for a thesis advisor.
I think my dad's rebellion is that he's super accepting - I mean, he, like, encouraged me to drop out of university. And to do acting.
My parents were actors. And so I was born in New York City, and when I was 7, they quit acting and went back to medical school at the University Of Chicago.
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.
I was never strong at maths, but I eventually got onto a university physics/astronomy course, and that led on to my Ph.D. and eventual employment.
I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.
If you start comparing my practice of law to what I could have been - selling bananas - you'll know why I gave money to the University of Texas.
I studied physics as an undergraduate, and after I graduated from Rice University, I was actually hired at the Johnson Space Center as a flight controller.
After that defeat by Joshua in 2015, I changed my trainer and teamed up with Mark Tibbs. I began working at Loughborough University.
A university education is a privilege, but we should be proud that in Britain it is also a right, no matter what your income or class or ethnic background.
It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.
In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.
The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.
[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free.
I did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.
A lot of people talk about the one-and-done attitude of college athletes, but if you look at the University of Kentucky, we do build winners.
I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.
Teaching university students affords me the opportunity to demonstrate to young adults that they don't have to be perfect to make contributions to their country.
I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.
I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.
The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.
My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
