Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Franek

New College is a very specific kind of school that offers a small, private school feel at a state college price. It is an uncommon place and could be just the right place for the right student.

Matt Jackson

Ontario college students are frustrated and furious this evening that their post-secondary education is being disrupted by a province-wide faculty strike.

Pope Benedict

On March 24 I will hold a consistory, for which I will nominate the new members of the College of Cardinals.

Alan Cohen

I am sad. It's like seeing my oldest son go off to college. I know he is ready for the world, but I still worry.

Mike Preston

But this decision is not a good trend for a college town. There should be some opportunity for those under 21 to socialize and dance.

Bob Stoops

But there are other parts of what we do here as college students and on a college team that also need to be fulfilled.

Michael Adams

But generally, I'd say we're a microcosm of the college prep kids in the state. I think the current representation is fine.

Brian Boland

Baylor has been tested. They have enjoyed tremendous college success.

Harvey Leeds

Imagine graduating and your job is to hang out on college campuses, where people who work for you are getting people excited about music. I said, 'You're going to pay me to do that?' It was the greatest job, never having to grow up.

Alexander Hamilton

Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations.

Alexander Hamilton

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.

Adlai E. Stevenson

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind.

Alexander Pope

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

Alexander Pope

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink of it deeply, or taste it not, for shallow thoughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking deeply sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Albert Shanker

There is no more reason to pay for private education than there is to pay for a private swimming pool for those who do not use public facilities.

We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he picked up in town.

James Beattie

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!

Bill Nygren

We were puzzled and frustrated by that, ... We were displeased with (management's) lack of urgency.

Ray Liotta

You know, I started out really hot out of the box. Then I've definitely had and up-and-down career. And when things started cooling off again, it frustrated me.

Zach Day

I'm a little frustrated it's taking this long, but it is spring training. It is what it is and I know what I can do when things are right.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.