I was the youngest of seven kids and I would not have been able to go to college without an athletic scholarship.
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.
I wasn't given a scholarship out of high school, and that allowed me to learn what hard work was early on.
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
People like to say don't abort, adopt. But I'm saying don't strip, scholarship.
I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.
When you see that any scholar loves the world, then his scholarship is in doubt.
It's... time to introduce scholarship programs that give students a choice, especially those who are locked into low-performing schools.
[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.
I went to the University of Arizona on a full athletic scholarship for gymnastics, where I competed and got 9th in the nation at the NCAAs.
I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
There is a new way of seeing him now. Because of that, there has been a lot of scholarship in Hemingway that is more thorough.
Regency buildings are often said to lack the serenity of their early Georgian predecessors, or the intense scholarship of the subsequent Gothic revival.
As a single mother, I qualified for Pell Grants, and received a scholarship from a small organization for domestic violence survivors.
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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.
Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
I came from a poor Pennsylvania coal mining family and the only way I was going to get an education was through an athletic scholarship.
When I came to Arsenal, I was on a scholarship earning £80 per week away from my family.
As soon as I learned that I was a finalist, it was no question in my mind that I was going to put myself into the competition for the Rhodes scholarship.
Once my junior year finished at Florida State, I won the Rhodes Scholarship and I was also projected as a second-round draft pick.
I understand the difference between journalism and scholarship that comes 20 years later.
I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.
My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.
I played baseball when I was younger, but the idea of the college scholarship enticed me to switch over to softball.
I went to study at Oxford University in the 1980s on an imperial scholarship instituted by Cecil Rhodes.
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.
I was a walk-on at Maryland, I had to earn my scholarship and starter spot, and the things that've come after.
It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship.
I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
When you lead a life of scholarship you can't be bothered with the humorous realities, you know, tits, that kind of thing.
I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.
As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.
For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.
I was the last one to get a scholarship out of my year - at 14, I think. I couldn't play up front because I was too small.
When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.
Scholarship has the same relationship to wisdom as righteousness has to holiness: it is cold and dry, it is loveless and knows nodeep feelings of inadequacy or longing.
You get a lot of accommodations for being on scholarship, but there is too much money floating around in the NCAA to not be giving it to the people earning it.
As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or "scholarship candidates," but "Fellows of another college."
I got a full-ride scholarship to the University of South Carolina for track.
I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
I knew that basketball was my love and the only way for me to go to college was to get a scholarship.
I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school.
I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome.
I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.
I knew my ticket out of the suburbs was art school, so I worked really hard to develop my portfolio and get a scholarship.
In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.
I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance.
Athletes are still exploited. If they blow out their knee, if they somehow don't meet the mandates of a coach, they lose their scholarship. They don't get their degree.
I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.
My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
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