College Quotes - Page 9

• I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate.

  Kay Granger

  Mother, Teacher, Teaching

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• I hated high school. Ugh. I couldn't wait until it was over so I could sleep in. In college, I made sure all my classes were in the afternoon. I hated getting up in the morning.

  Mario Cantone

  Morning, School, Sleep

  "Standup Mario Cantone won't miss his bus to the Hard Rock". Interview with Rod Stafford Hagwood, www.sun-sentinel.com. October 10, 2012.

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• Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

  Paul Weyrich

  Christian, Religious, Practice

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• Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground in pointing out that our colleges underachieve in preparing students for citizenship.

  George Leef

  Book, Students, Citizenship

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• Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Wisdom, Men, Order

  Elbert Hubbard (1928). “Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great ...”

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• When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

  Gary Danielson

  Iron, Watches, Woods

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• I knew out of high school I didn't want to go to college. I knew what whatever I did wouldn't have anything to do with college.

  Tila Tequila

  School, High School, Want

  "SRS Babe of the Week: Tila Nguyen". Interview with Tyrone Rodriguez, www.ign.com. March 14, 2003.

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• When I was in college, I spent a summer working in London. I'd enjoyed tea before that, but then I got actual, really good tea there and never looked back.

  Sarah Zettel

  Summer, Tea, London

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• People look at black pride in America and sport's impact on it. In the major cities it took off the first time Jackie Robinson stole home. In the deep South, it started with Eddie Robinson, who took a small college in northern Louisiana with little or no funds and sent the first black to the pros and made everyone look at him and Grambling.

  Jerry Izenberg

  Sports, Home, Pride

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• Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

  Anne Bancroft

  School, Achievement, High School

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• Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Education, Art, Students

  "Joseph E. Stiglitz - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 2001") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 2002.

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• I drop styles on ears...the public bite 'em.
  Not many went to school, so the dummies wouldn't write 'em.
  They say, "Yo Keith! You're Kool, you usin' big words!"
  I went to college, I'm even more stupid, herb.

  Kool Keith

  Stupid, Rap, Writing

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• Guess what, the cheerleaders in college are the best athletes in college. You think, I'm joking, they're almost all gymnasts, the stuff they do on hard wood, it blows my mind.

  Joe Biden

  Athlete, Blow, Thinking

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• I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
  I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.

  MC Paul Barman

  Teacher, Rap, Hip Hop

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• I smoked with a lot of college students...
  Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it.

  Redman

  Rap, Hip Hop, Ems

  Song: Whateva Man, Album: Muddy Waters

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• The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

  Martha Reeves

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

  Steve Schmidt

  Home, Reality, Class

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• As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.

  Jerome Rothenberg

  Sex, Taken, Taught Us

  Jerome Rothenberg (1981). “Pre-faces & Other Writings”, p.36, New Directions Publishing

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• And sex is definitely part of college life.

  Scott Speedman

  Sex, College Life

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• In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate from high school, college, or university without ever having cared for, or even held, a baby; without ever having looked after someone who was old, ill, or lonely; or without ever having comforted or assisted another human being who really needed help... No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations, and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings.

  Urie Bronfenbrenner

  Baby, Motivation, School

  "The Ecology of Human Development".

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• I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Respect, Games

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• A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of bacon, right down to the molecular level, but without it ever being part of a pig, how is it to be treated?

  Charles Stross

  Religious, Issues, Pigs

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.156, Penguin

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• If you would be a better teacher, teach by the spirit. That is the thing that gives strength and power, meaning and life, to our otherwise weak efforts... remember, you cannot give away that which you do not possess. Study the life of the master. You do not have to have a college degree to be an efficient teacher. But you do have to become acquainted with the life and teachings of the master to be an effective teacher in the church.

  A. Theodore Tuttle

  Life, Teacher, Teaching

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• Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated to this community and would utilize all of my present and future resources to benefit this community first and foremost.

  Michelle Obama

  Careers, Community, Black

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