College Quotes - Page 12

• Black is beautiful when it is a slum kid studying to enter college, when it is a man learning new skills for a new job. . . .

  Whitney M. Young

  Beautiful, Jobs, Children

  Whitney M. Young (1969). “Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society”

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• We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

  Roy Barnes

  School, Names, Training

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• I speak for a lot of church groups, youth groups, schools, colleges and do personal appearances. I've done conventions and trade shows. A lot of different little hats.

  Donna Douglas

  School, Church, Groups

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• I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

  Arthur Godfrey

  School, Symphony, Playing Music

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• Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

  Jonathan Richman

  Friday, Band, Shows

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• I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college

  Steve Albini

  Chicago, Moved

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• Addressing the Columbia crew after winning the intercollegiate regatta: I congratulate you most heartily upon the splendid victory you have won, and the luster you have shed upon the name of Columbia College. I thank you for the Faculty of the College, for the manifest service you have done to this institution. . . . I am convinced that in one day or in one summer, you have done more to make Columbia College known than all your predecessors have done since the foundation of the college by this, your great triumph.

  Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard

  Summer, Winning, Names

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• My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Jobs, Fun, Years

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• In college, the fans cheer the whole game, from start to finish. In the NBA it's really laid back.

  Nate Robinson

  Cheer, Nba, Games

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• In 2005, a man diagnosed with multiple myeloma asked me if he would be alive to watch his daughter graduate from high school in a few months. In 2009, bound to a wheelchair, he watched his daughter graduate from college. The wheelchair had nothing to do with his cancer. The man had fallen down while coaching his youngest son's baseball team.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Baseball, Daughter, Cancer

  Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010). “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”, p.444, Simon and Schuster

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• The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Summer, Experience

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• I never graduated from Iowa, but I was only there for two terms - Truman's and Eisenhower's.

  Alex Karras

  Inspirational, Football, Teenager

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• When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change

  John Lewis

  Kings, Mean, Rights

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• Like many others, I have deep misgivings about the state of education in the United States. Too many of our students fail to graduate from high school with the basic skills they will need to succeed in the 21st Century economy, much less prepared for the rigors of college and career. Although our top universities continue to rank among the best in the world, too few American students are pursuing degrees in science and technology. Compounding this problem is our failure to provide sufficient training for those already in the workforce.

  Bill Gates

  Business, School, Technology

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• Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, Technology

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The purpose of a college education is to give you the correct view of minorities, and the means to live as far away from them as possible.

  Joseph Sobran

  Mean, Views, Giving

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Education, Writing, Opportunity

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• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  William Z. Foster

  Religious, School, Patriotic

  William Z. Foster (1961). “Toward Soviet America: The book the communists tried to destroy!”

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• The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor. My grandmother never owned a house. She cleaned other people's houses so she could afford to rent her own. But she saw her daughter become the first in her family to graduate from college. And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

  Julian Castro

  Daughter, Mother, Dream

  "Julian Castro's 5 notable lines" by Kevin Cirilli, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

  Kimberlee Green

  Educational, Successful, Skills

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• Sounds so silly, but I want to accomplish getting my kids through college.

  Treat Williams

  Stupid, Silly, Kids

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• America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world's top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

  Norm Coleman

  School, America, World

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• I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.

  Dana Hill

  Children, School, Kids

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• Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

  LaVell Edwards

  Graduation, Football, Hurt

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• My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

  Dante Hall

  Team, Eye, Blue

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