Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tracee Ellis Ross

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

Walt Whitman

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.

Roseanne Barr

US needs to fix up it's election system so that votes are fairly counted, and the Electoral College is removed.

Rooney Mara

My sister started acting professionally when she was twelve, but I wanted to go to college first

Rooney Mara

When I was at college, my nickname was Keds, because I wore Keds. I guess it wasn't really a nickname, because nicknames are usually given to you by people who are your friends and who know you.

Robin Thicke

Some people go to college. For me I studied music my whole life. That was my college.

Satchel Paige

Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge.

Sargent Shriver

If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college.

Sargent Shriver

I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.

Sarah Vowell

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.

Yolanda Adams

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life building. Education was key in my family. You were going to college

William Hazlitt

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

Wendell Phillips

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

William P. Leahy

What we're about is a manifestation of the Catholic roots of Boston College.

Robert B. Parker

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Rich Sommer

In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey' seemed to make its way into the rotation an inordinate amount of times.

Red Auerbach

I have two college degrees, four honorary doctorate degrees, and am in three Halls of fame, and the only thing I know how to do is teach tall people how to put a ball in the hole.

Richard Rodriguez

So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.

Sylvia Plath

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?

Ronald Burkle

I started out as a box boy. You know, I didn't go to college, and I did well in supermarkets.

Tom Ford

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

Tom Barrett

Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.

Steve Jobs

If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backward 10 years later.

Steve Jobs

I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.

Steve Coogan

I used to do stuff at college. I could do voices. I could make some people laugh. I wasn't the class clown, but I knew I had this skill.

Stephen Graham

College is the only place where you can rebel by doing exactly what people in authority tell you to do.

Spiro T. Agnew

The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

Ruchi Sanghvi

When I started out in Facebook, it had only 20 people. I saw it grow to a thousand employees and from five million users to over a billion users. I saw it evolve from a service that served college students to one that served the world,

Ross Martin

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch.

Rosie O'Donnell

I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.

Rush Limbaugh

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

Rush Limbaugh

These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

Rush Limbaugh

Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.