Top 1200 Yale University Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

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 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.

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

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'm going to prove I belong. There's a lot of skepticism about the type of player I am, where I come from, the University of Wyoming, obviously.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

Liberty University will not lend its name or financial support to any student group that advances causes contrary to its mission.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

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

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.

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.

In 1957, at the age of 18, I entered Kyoto University, which was known to be the most active institution in the research of polymer chemistry.

After university, I taught in a sixth-form college in York for a year and a half before deciding to try acting.

Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.

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.

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.

Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

I'm a student at Harvard University, and currently work as the United States Youth Poet Laureate, a community organizer, and an activist.

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

Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits.

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

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

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.

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

As a transplanted northerner, London has always signified big-city glamour and cosmopolitanism. It's part of what drew me here after university.

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

The World University Games Gold medal was a great confidence booster for me. It highlighted my talents, my performance and dedication.

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

To make the peaks higher. [His reason to target philanthropic funding to only the best university science departments.]

I am supremely humbled to receive the 40 Under Forty honor by Stony Brook University in the category of Civil Service and Activism.

It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal.

I got to a point when I was 20 that I dropped out of university because I felt I didn't have any purpose, and I wanted to find a fire in me.

I got a degree in psychology at the University of Michigan and can most definitely sing the greatest college fight song of all time.

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

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

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.

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.

Today, Wilberforce University welcomes many of America's poorest and most underserved populations and transforms their educational dreams into realities.

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 did a term at Cambridge University studying medicine, so I could potentially have followed in Mum and Dad's footsteps and become a doctor.

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

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.

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.

A truly great university is a nucleus of artistic expression. It fosters creative, critical thought, and serves as a platform for civil discourse.

I spent a year at Southwestern Louisiana Institute, then transferred back to the University of Texas, where I majored in English and history.

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.

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

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 got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.