College Quotes - Page 19

• Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

  Ellen Ochoa

  Girl, Teacher, School

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• Rookies are also coming in from college programs as big stars, whereas when we came in, we were just happy to be there. We were happy to be playing in a big gym, to be on television, to be playing in America.

  Sue Wicks

  Stars, America, Television

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• Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping, and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Real, Bodybuilding, Awards

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• Mr. Stevenson has a degree alright-a PhD from the Acheson College of Cowardly Communist Containment.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Degrees, Phds

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• I can't say that the college-bred woman is the most contented woman. The broader her mind the more she understands the unequal conditions between men and women, the more she chafes under a government that tolerates it.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Mind, Tolerate

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• What school, college, or lecture bring men depends on what men bring to carry it home in.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home, School, Men

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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

  Giving, Graduates, Delaware

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• The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

  Beth Henley

  Dog, School, Years

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Believe, Flower

  Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

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• In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Angel, Years, Energy

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• The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

  Edward H. Levi

  Art, Giving, Roles

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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• Research shows us that children who are read to from a very early age are more likely to begin reading themselves at an early age. They're more likely to excell in school. They're more likely to graduate secondary school and go to college.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Book, Reading

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• The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is an excuse for failure, violent behavior, or indulgence in drugs.

  Roland Merullo

  Success, Educational, Numbers

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• I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

  Len Wein

  Art, School, Class

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

  Clarence Thomas

  Way, Saws, Bothered

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• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Robert Scheer

  Teaching, Usc, Students

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• College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

  Mark Twain

  Brain, Lectures, Students

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• We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world.

  Ross Martin

  Real, Class, World

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• Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Block, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Dec. 1, 1853-Aug. 31, 1854”

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• I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

  Tony Dungy

  School, Winning, Player

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• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Sherrod Brown

  Years, Broken, Promise

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• It's not that I don't love the song. My songs are like my children: some you want around and some you want to send off to college as soon as possible.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Children, Want

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• I never went to college, so I went to the library.

  Ray Bradbury

  Library

  "Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration" by Dan Gillmor, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.

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• I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Smart, Book, School

  "Are Wedding Bells in Snooki's Future?" by Lauren Sher, abcnews.go.com. August 10, 2011.

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• Why do Americans find government so baffling and irritating-even though many of us depend on public programs for a secure retirement, an affordable mortgage, or a college loan? In this timely and important book, political scientist Suzanne Mettler explains how the United States has come to rely on hidden, indirect policies that privilege special interests but puzzle regular citizens. American democracy can do better, and she shows how. Politicians and the public alike have much to learn from her brilliant and engaging analysis.

  Theda Skocpol

  Retirement, Book, Government

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