College Education Quotes - Page 5

• I went into the Army, and one day, in the middle of a bull session, somebody called me an atheist. Believe it or not, it was the first time I'd ever heard the word. It goes to show you how a person can grow up in America and have a college education and still not know a goddamned thing.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Atheist, Growing Up, Believe

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• I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Smart, School

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The Democrat Party coalition has now been outnumbered. The Democrats threw away their allegiance to white working-class voters. They basically discarded everybody who's white that doesn't have a college education. Well, that is a huge number of people. The Democrats instead decided to build a coalition of minorities and illegal immigrants and union workers, and they are dwindling in number, and they are localized. They are in urban areas in a few big cities. We outnumber them now, and we can cement this for a huge amount of the future.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, College, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• People with a college education are now less likely to divorce than they were a few decades ago, and they're more likely to describe their marriages as happy. That finding really surprised me. It appears that those with a higher education have been more able to dismantle strict traditional roles and, in doing so, gain more freedom. I call it a seesaw marriage, one in which both the man and the woman take turns being the breadwinner, making it possible for each of them to experience career advancements or breaks at different times.

  Hanna Rosin

  Divorce, College, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

  John Lithgow

  College, Years, Four

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Get your education. The number of guys who are blessed to be in the league is so small compared to the number of high school players [who want to play in the league]. But one thing you can do is get your college education. If you are blessed enough to get a scholarship to play college basketball, make sure you get your college degree, too, then move on from there.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Moving, Blessed

  Interview with Josh Staph, www.stack.com. January 1, 2007.

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• College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

  Sai Baba

  Educational, College, Giving

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• My parents always raised us with the idea of having college in mind. You sort of need a college education. It's part of life. It's something that you do - like going to your prom.

  Molly Ringwald

  College, Ideas, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

  Mark Twain

  College, Play, Two

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• Instead of saving for someone else's college education, I'm currently saving for a luxury retirement community replete with golf carts and handsome young male nurses who love butterscotch.

  Jen Kirkman

  Retirement, Golf, College

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• In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the end of the L.A. Marathon.

  Henry Rollins

  College, Hands, Water

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• The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

  Claire McCaskill

  College, Chance, Should

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I think one percent of the population attended college when Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost and Gertrude Stein were at Harvard. Now I think forty percent of Americans have some college education. That's an astronomical change.

  Robert Hass

  College, Thinking, Frost

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Looks

  "Rush Limbaugh on rift that threatens the Republican Party; Mitt Romney talks Trump attack, future of the GOP". "Fox News Sunday", www.foxnews.com. March 6, 2016.

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• As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

  Anna Quindlen

  Father, Kids, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Compassion is a college education. It's a doctorate.

  Krishna Das

  College, Compassion, Doctorates

  "Krishna Das on Compassion". Interview with Zoë Kors, beherenownetwork.com. June 1, 2016.

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• So many times, white - non-college-education - educated white males have voted Republican. They voted against their own economic interests because of guns, because of gays, and because of God, the three G's, God being the woman's right to choose.

  Judy Woodruff

  Gay, Gun, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not going to benefit from free college education, but I think all those things are good for the country.

  David Cross

  Country, College, Thinking

  "David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.

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• There are many major crises facing our country. At the top of the list is the need to overturn Citizens United. If billionaires are able to buy elections and elect right-wing candidates, there is no way we will ever address climate change, college education, affordability, job creation, raising the minimum wage and taking on Wall Street.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Wall

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Your college education is a key moment in life.

  Robert Greene

  College, Keys, Moments

  Source: dilanka.cc

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• People are tired of working longer hours for lower wages, of seeing decent paying jobs go to China and other low-wage countries, of billionaires not paying any federal income taxes and of not being able to afford a college education for their kids - all while the very rich become much richer.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Jobs, Tired

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

  Eli Broad

  Summer, Dream, School

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• The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

  Roy Romer

  Dream, College, Thinking

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• This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

  Michael N. Castle

  College, Giving, Graduates

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