College Quotes - Page 32

• Free Speech in the College Community is a very timely book written by a dedicated scholar of the First Amendment. Challenging and readable it should be studied by all academicians, students, legislators and lawyers.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Book, Community, Challenges

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• Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

  Learned Hand

  Learning, America, Today

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.

  Robert Frost

  School, Past, Creating

  Robert Frost, Mark Richardson (2007). “The Collected Prose of Robert Frost”, p.96, Harvard University Press

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• There are two things every man in America thinks he can do: work a grill and coach football.

  Greg Schiano

  Football, Men, Thinking

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• The only bowl Rutgers is going to is the one I just got off of.

  Glenn Foley

  Football, Rutgers, Bowls

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• When I get the ball, for some reason I see holes. I'm not really sure how.

  Mike Bass

  Football, Balls, Reason

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• Is this college football's version of Arena Football? These guys need to grow some hair on their peaches.

  Gary Danielson

  Football, Hair, Guy

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• In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

  Mary Oliver

  Years, Four, Too Much

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• If me and King Kong went into an alley, only one of us would come out. And it wouldn't be the monkey.

  Lyle Alzado

  Football, Kings, Nfl

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• I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

  Jerry Glanville

  Daughter, Football, Thinking

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• Son, you've got a good engine, but your hands aren't on the steering wheel.

  Bobby Bowden

  Football, Son, Hands

  Bobby Bowden, Steve Bowden (2001). “The Bowden Way: 50 Years of Leadership Wisdom”, p.121, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.

  Michael Dean Perry

  Running, Football, Emotional

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• My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

  George Edward Woodberry

  Hero, Slavery, May

  George Edward Woodberry (1912). “Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an American”

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• One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It is there that we see how a number of energetic social innovators, plugging their grand designs, succeeded over the years in capturing the liberal intellectual imagination. And since ideas rule the world, the ideologues, having won over the intellectual class, simply walked in and started to run things. Run just about everything. There never was an age of conformity quite like this one, or a camaraderie quite like the Liberals'.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Running, Years, Class

  "Publisher's Statement" in the first issue of National Review, November 19, 1955.

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• I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

  Matt Groening

  Growing Up, Book, Kids

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• I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, Men, Virginia

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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• We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, Self

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• For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Community, Leader, Training

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

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• I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

  Jane Haddam

  Teacher, Editors, Magazines

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• Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.

  Jonathan Raban

  Children, Years, Different

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• When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Art, People, Pennsylvania

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.5, Penguin

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• If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

  Bo Jackson

  Sports, Years, Four

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, Done, Soap

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• Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

  Derek Bok

  Teaching, Support, Doe

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• So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

  James Earl Jones

  Girl, Drama, School

  "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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