Top 1200 Princeton University Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

My mum is a social worker and my dad's a roofer. My brother Nicky and I were the first two in my family to go to university.

The fact that I am getting a doctorate in spite of being a college drop-out proves that the world can be your university.

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

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.

I had gone to university and done engineering and then I got into art school and said I'm going to do this for three years.

When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

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

I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.

I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

At university, I used to cheat and use precooked meals and then tell my friends that I've cooked it. They thought I had skills!

I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I started working on a TV show in Australia, straight out of high school, so I missed the whole university experience.

I have made the very difficult decision to leave my position as head coach of the men's basketball team at Indiana University.

One of my favorite things on YouTube is the famous 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at Cambridge University.

I spend most of my time by being at a university, hanging out with very manic, excited 18-year-olds.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

When I left university with a history degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do, and I was terrified of accidentally ending up in the wrong career.

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

The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the Trinity. . . .

I don't want people to feel like I'm upset or bitter with C-Webb or the University of Michigan. I love them both.

I always remember that whatever I have done in the past or may do in the future, Duke University is responsible in one way or another.

I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

I'm telling you, I could teach at a university, [George] Carlin, a whole semester. The construction and deconstruction of the words, the language, the order.

I was less angry at [Carl] Armstrong, though I was angry at the people who came to his trial: Dan Ellsberg, who ordinarily I respected a lot; Philip Berrigan; the guy who teaches at Princeton still - I can't remember his name. And they were saying - well, they were saying, really, what Arthur Koestler had people saying on "Darkness at Noon." The means were unfortunate and, sadly, someone died, but the end is what is important and this was a great symbolic - something or other - sign against the war in Vietnam.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

My brother was the consummate Nebraska boy - the football star who went to the university, was president of his fraternity, hunted with my dad all the time.

I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they're absolutely vital.

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.

When I'm done playing basketball, I want do something bigger. I'm working on my doctorate right now at Barry University in Florida.

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.

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make many films about the world of a poet.

Liberty University is pro-life and believes that marriage between one man and one woman provides the best environment for children.

All through university years, I used to come up to Melbourne, go to Pizza Napoli with my friends and then to a movie.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I had a very embarrassing time acting extremely badly at university, which is when directing suddenly became so attractive.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

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.

The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.

My wife, Ashley, is a West Texan, a graduate of Abilene Cooper Public High School and the University of Texas.

My first job out of school was to do basic research at Johns Hopkins University's applied physics lab.

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 have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner. My mum worked a receptionist. I was one of the first people in my family to go to university.

My dad was an actor, so he would try and put me off and say, 'Come on, you've got to go to university first.'

I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers and students both-but they did not come up with many new concepts. They weren't invited to come up with new concepts. Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

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.

I had a classmate who fitted for college by the lamps of a lighthouse, which was more light, we think, than the University afforded.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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.

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

I auditioned at four different colleges. When I got into the University of Michigan, my parents said, 'Okay, maybe you do have talent.'

I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.

On his 916th game as coach at University of Alabama - I've been here so long that when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

When people ask if Marquette University is in Michigan, and I tell them my alma mater is in Milwaukee, they sometimes say, 'What's the difference?'