Top 1200 University Of Michigan Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.

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.

When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.

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

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.

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.

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 studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.

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 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.

Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our free society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation.

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.

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 finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.

I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

I worked as a trainee manager for two years after leaving university - then got bored with the nine to five.

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

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.

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

From B.A. to M.A. and on to Ph.D., my academic career was all smooth sailing. Upon receiving my degrees, I stayed on to teach at Beijing Normal University.

University was a shock to the system. At times, I really thought I couldn't do it. It's the same with 'Strictly.' I'm completely out of my comfort zone.

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.

If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber

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

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

The past four years at St. John's University have been one of the most thrilling and challenging points of my career.

I went to school at the University of Utah, and they had outstanding facilities and coaches that helped me grow and mature as a person.

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

Worked hard on [our message of strengthening the middle class, working people], but it didn't come through in places like Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.It really should have, because people are struggling. And the Democratic message and the Democratic platform would help them, but somehow it didn't come up the way it should have. But it will.

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

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 graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.

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

People at the University of Portland were accepting and loving and open-minded. When you have a safety net, it allows you to take risks.

I was lucky to grow up at a time when it was not difficult for the child of a tenant farmer to make his way to the state university.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

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

I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

The ladder was there, from the gutter to the university, and for those stalwart enough to ascend it, the schools were a boon and a path out of poverty.

I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

People think I just dropped out of university and went, 'Mum, Dad, get me a job in television.'

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

My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.

I write to be read. I'm quite direct about that. I'm not writing to thrill colleagues or to impress the professors at the University of Iowa; that's not my goal.