Back To College Quotes

• The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

  Tony Hillerman

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

  52 Copy quote

• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

  329 Copy quote

• Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Food, Inspiration

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 5, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

  John Green

  Stupid, College, Years

  19 Copy quote

• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

  Ernest Renan

  Life, Education, Teaching

  12 Copy quote

• You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Inspiring, Graduation

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

  24 Copy quote

  Show source

• Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

  Ernest Dimnet

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.36, Prabhat Prakashan

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

  Assata Shakur

  Book, College, Practice

  150 Copy quote

• What would be wrong with letting a kid go pro, and if it doesn't work out he can come back to college? What's the harm in that? The reason is the word "amateurism." The NCAA has to protect colleges' tax exemption.

  Sonny Vaccaro

  Kids, College, Ncaa

  Source: www.esquire.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• After we finished touring 'Ignore The Ignorant' we had this perfect idea that we were going to take a couple of years off, that was the plan. Because we thought we were definitely going to take time off, I was going to go back to college, that was what I was going to do. Because the whole idea of it was that I have spent ten years in this band and not even realised that that amount of time has passed.

  Ryan Jarman

  Couple, College, Years

  4 Copy quote

• My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

  Vidya Balan

  Father, College, Later In Life

  8 Copy quote

• When I'm 40, too old to be a rock star, I plan to go back to college to study classical music.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, College, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on learning to write and to speak before an audience . Nothing is more important than the abillity to communicate effectively.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Writing, Wrestling, College

  6 Copy quote

• I did 'The Karate Kid,' then I just went back to college. I didn't know how much money it made and I didn't have a publicist. I didn't have any sense of the business part of it.

  Elisabeth Shue

  Kids, College, Karate

  4 Copy quote

• Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.

  Sharon Olds

  Daughter, Children, Memories

  20 Copy quote

• A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.

  Bill Maher

  College, People, President

  Bill Maher (1996). “Does Anybody Have a Problem with That?: Politically Incorrect's Greatest Hits”, Villard Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have no urge to go back to college.

  Kristin Cavallari

  College, Urges

  4 Copy quote

• The idea of going back to college scares me, and I didn't even go. I went to college for one year, two semesters. If you add up the total time, I probably didn't even go one semester.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Years, Ideas

  5 Copy quote