Top 1200 University Professors Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I went to university in Birmingham in the 1970s just when the curry revolution was starting in Britain.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University

I'm from Kingston, R.I., sort of on the University of Rhode Island campus - on the margins of that, actually.

My career as a model. I was due to go to University. It was a risk but it was the right decision.

When I was 18 and was studying in university, Vladimir Putin became president of Russia.

I received a Master's degree in 1991 in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University.

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

Adolescence is a relatively recent thing in human history -- a period of years between the constraints of childhood and the responsibilities of adulthood. This irresponsible period of adolescence is artificially extended by long years of education, much of it wasted on frivolities. Tenure extends adolescence even further for teachers and professors.

I illustrate with a quotation from the atheist philosopher Richard Rorty, who died recently and is, I suspect, now having a lengthy conversation with his maker. Rorty argued that secular professors ought “to arrange things so that students who enter as bigoted, homophobic religious fundamentalists will leave college with views more like our own.

I got a full-ride scholarship to the University of South Carolina for track.

We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

Crafter's Companion started life as a big dream in my little university bedroom.

And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the sub-agents, the sub-sub-agents, the accountants, the libel lawyers, the departments of literature, the professors, the theses, the books of criticism, the reviewers, the book pages- all this vast and proliferating edifice is because of this small, patronized, put-down and underpaid person.'

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.

I studied physics at university, and I'm still a sucker for an experiment or scientific theory.

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

My mother was one of the first women admitted to Vienna University and her word was law.

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street.

I was Sweater Queen at Bowling Green State University. Oh, that's a laugh, isn't it?

The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.

I was raised in inner-city Liverpool, the first in my family to go to university.

When I went to my parents I was at the University of Wisconsin, and I just couldn't wait anymore to go be an actress.

I went to Appalachian State University, which was very bluegrass- and folk-oriented.

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Columbia University in 1959 had a kind of reputation that interested me.

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Lucknow University looks amazing all lit up during night time.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

I decided to go back home and try to enroll in the University of Houston.

I want to prove that you don't have to come from Oxford University or Rada - and you don't have to have parents that support you - to succeed.

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

The opportunity to play for Duke University is great, and that's the reason I chose the school.

Even from the very beginning, the type of fans the Ramones generated were the kind of people who wound up running industry, who became professors and scientists. Our staunchest fans were always a little bit more on the outside, the type of people who didn't fit in with society.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

I am deeply indebted to Georgetown University and the basketball program for all they have done for me.

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

I attended university because I have always felt that education is freedom and power.

If that is your route, to go to university and get a job that way, that is fantastic.

I had a plan. I played football professionally but I also studied at university.

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

The University of Maryland was an inspiration for me, and the relationships I made there have lasted a lifetime.

Take the teacher not the course. Find out who the great professors are - the great teachers - and take their courses because a subject that you may not think you're interested in may turn out to be infinitely fascinating because of the way it's taught.

I am acting at university, and I have really enjoyed doing student drama.

One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.

I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.

I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.

I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.

The University of Westminster is well known for being a hotbed of extremist activity.

There is no tradition more worth of envy, no institution worthy of such loyalty, as the University of Georgia.

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

We must take the best from the left and the best from the right to devise new strategies for the global twenty-first century. The reluctance of liberal professors to speak out against rampant abuses committed on their side (e.g., suppression of free speech, the excesses of women's studies and French theory) has simply increased the power of the right.