Top 1200 Yale University Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

When I was growing up, anyone who wasn't white was black. It meant all of us. Though when I was at university, we started to be called Asians.

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 wanted to get out of Ashland, and I thought it would be pretty cool to go to school in the East. So I asked my guidance counselor what Ivy League schools were. And I applied to Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth - that was it. My guidance counselor told me I wouldn't get into an Ivy League school. So as my act of resistance, that's all I applied to.

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.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

The referee said it was not acceptable, but the Press considered they could not refuse to publish a book by a professor of the university.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

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

I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

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

All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.

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

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

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

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

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.

The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.

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.

Most literature on the culture of adolescence focuses on peer pressure as a negative force. Warnings about the "wrong crowd" read like tornado alerts in parent manuals. . . . It is a relative term that means different things in different places. In Fort Wayne, for example, the wrong crowd meant hanging out with liberal Democrats. In Connecticut, it meant kids who weren't planning to get a Ph. D. from Yale.

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.

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

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

Early in my doctoral training at Cornell University, I became immersed in the behavioral decision theory paradigm.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

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

What incentive does a university have to control costs when it has a steady supply of students being lent federal funds?

At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.

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

I'll never regret a moment I spent at the University of Oklahoma or my decision to stay home and become a Sooner for life.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

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

For many young people on-the-job training and hands-on experience is the real route to employability, not a university education.

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.

I played Big Mama in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

The culture of rigorous questioning and open discourse at the University of Chicago has opened minds to ideas that have changed the world.

My parents, who were both professors at Tsinghua University, hoped that I would follow in their footsteps and become a professor.

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

I studied drama at the Queensland University of Technology, which was amazing. I can't speak highly enough of that school.

I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.

I went to the University of Michigan for one year, and fortunately they had a foreign-film cinema, and I discovered it, and I thought I died and went to heaven.

It's not like at university where you graduate. Every cyclist must start again. At the end of the season you know if you are good or not.

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

If you look at where innovation - defined as ideas, not as commercial product - tends to live, the university system is remarkably innovative.

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

I was 21 years old when I first signed with WWE. I finished my university degree and came straight to America.

I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.

My son is a lecturer at Bristol University in anthropology. His degree was in, get this, human mating strategies - sex!

I went on to Oklahoma State University, who was the best flight school in the United States at that time from the mid '50s on to the '70s.

A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.

In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

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.

The first time I held an African drum in my hands was at Koc University in a forest in the northern suburbs of Istanbul.

The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.