College Quotes

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.- John Ciardi

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.- Bernie Sanders

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities:  the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.- Abbott Lawrence Lowell

College has given me the confidence I need to fail.- Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.- Chris Cannon

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.- Russell Green

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.- Robert M. Hutchins

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.- L.L. Hendren

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.- Horatio Alger

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.- Natalie Portman

College is the best time of your life.  When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?- David Wood

By making college unaffordable and student loans unbearable, we risk deterring our best and brightest from pursuing higher education and securing a good-paying job.- Mark Pocan

My parents told me that education was the path to success - and they showed me, taking me to Head Start while they were pursuing their own college degrees.- Denise Juneau

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.- Bill Cosby

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.- Jason Biggs

Does college pay?  They do if you are a good open-field runner.- Will Rogers

You have four years to be irresponsible [in college], relax. Work is for people with jobs.  You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on a Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does.- Tom Petty

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.- Andrew Shue

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.- Sydney J. Harris

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.- Carl Sagan

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.- George Gobel

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.- T. D. Jakes

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.- J. Robert Oppenheimer

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.- Theodore Roosevelt

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments.  Of course they graduate the best - it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country.  They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money - provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.- Peter DeVries

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.- Mindy Kaling

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.- Bonnie Raitt

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels. However, my parents, both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing personal quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. I know that the irony strikes with the force of a cartoon anvil, now.- J.K. Rowling

The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill.- Ted Morgan

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.- Leonard L. Levinson

Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart, and intuition.- Steve Jobs

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.- Thomas Edward Brown

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.- Danica McKellar

For some students, especially in the sciences, the knowledge gained in college may be directly relevant to graduate study. For almost all students, a liberal arts education works in subtle ways to create a web of knowledge that will illumine problems and enlighten judgment on innumerable occasions in later life.- Derek Bok

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.- Robert M. Hutchins

You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.- Robert Griffin III

If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.- Chuck Palahniuk

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.- Jodi Rell

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.- Oprah Winfrey 

Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure by dreaming BIG!- Jo Franz

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.- Bobby Scott

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.- Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!