College Quotes

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life. (Woodrow Wilson)
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. View quote
Maya Angelou
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
College isn't the place to go for ideas. View quote
Helen Keller
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. View quote
Mark Twain
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. View quote
John Ciardi
Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream. View quote
Michael Dell
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one. View quote
William James
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. (Frank Zappa)
Don't join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family But not much in between unless a college. View quote
Robert Frost
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree. View quote
Marian Wright Edelman
When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even television! I met a lot of my friends in school and in college, and they are still my friends today. View quote
Indra Nooyi
When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors. View quote
Ann Coulter
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. View quote
James A. Garfield
Only when I began studying chemical engineering at Oregon Agricultural College did I realize that I myself might discover something new about the nature of the world. View quote
Linus Pauling
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I didn't want to be a dancer... I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally. View quote
Gene Kelly
Kids go to school and college and get through, but they don't seem to really care about using their minds. School doesn't have the kind of long term positive impact that it should. View quote
Howard Gardner
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. (Charlie Trotter)
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one. View quote
Emily Oster
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. View quote
Claire Tomalin
Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way. View quote
Andrew Shue
If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music. View quote
Billy Eckstine