Best College Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I stopped watching television like a fiend once I got into college.”

Television College Watching Television

Author:Jane Lynch

“I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.”

People Kids Age College Off To College

Author:Laura Lippman

“Even when I was young, playing college football, and I injured my knee, I bounced right back.”

Young Football College Majors Knees Injured College Football

Author:Lee Majors

“When I was 18, I joined the Screen Actors Guild, and after college I came to New York.”

Actors New York College Screens Guilds

Author:Marla Maples

“I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.”

Different Opportunity Path Saws College Becoming Leaving Academic

Author:Jodie Foster

“When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick.”

Mind Real Wanted Changed College Grew Grew Up Doctors Lawyer Occupation

Author:Tia Mowry

“My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.”

Feels I Can Helping Father Clear College Ordinary Paid Best Things Upbringing Trainees

Author:Vijay Mallya

“I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.”

Kind Littles Reading Bits College Little Bit My Time Loner Weirdo

Author:Zosia Mamet

“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”

Wells School House Party Rocks College Band High School Touring Rock Bands Togas

Author:Alessandro Nivola

“I earned a black belt when I was in high school. And I did a lot of boxing and full contact karate in college.”

School Black College High School Contact Boxing Belts Karate Black Belt

Author:Dean Norris

“When I was in college I did a lot of comedy.”

Comedy College Pranks

Author:Dean Norris

“My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.”

Firsts Persons Parent Happened College Dad Band My Family My Dad Singers Harvard First Person

Author:Dean Norris

“I began after college, about 1972. I began to teach myself photography. I went to work for a local newspaper for four years as a kind of basic training.”

Years Kind Teach Four College Photography Training Newspapers Locals Four Years Basic Training

Author:James Nachtwey

“When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.”

Play College Theatre Pretty Woman

Author:Judd Nelson

“I graduated from college in Ohio and bummed around for a while, and then I joined VISTA, which was a domestic Peace Corps kind of thing, and they sent me to Colorado.”

Kind College Ohio Colorado Vistas Peace Corps

Author:Mojo Nixon

“When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.”

Knows Children Problem Political Students College Stance

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.”

College Medical Graduates Qualified

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“When I left the Royal College, I decided I would only make paintings that I would want to look at myself, that felt close to my life.”

Want Looks Left Felt College Painting Decided Royal

Author:Chris Ofili

“I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.”

School America Born College High School Moved Finished Nigeria Indiana

Author:Dayo Okeniyi

“I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.”

Wanted School Film Courses Community Class Study College Terrible University Going Away Auditions Community College

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.”

Interest College Particular Recalls

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.”

People Knows Way Trying Forget College Consensus Going To College

Author:Larisa Oleynik

“Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me.”

People School Remember Memories Powerful Students College Smell Noise Shooting Fourth Remember When July Fireworks College Students Richmond

Author:Kevin Powers

“In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.”

Form Political Left Black Violence Groups Students College Army Activism Liberation Radicalism Panthers Black Panther Weathermen Political Violence

Author:Marisha Pessl

“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.”

“College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.”

Men Education College Dumb

Author:Randy Newman

“Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.”

Ifs Book Education College Gains College Education

Author:LL Cool J

“If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?”

Ifs Education College Idiot Graduates College Education Knowledge Is Power College Graduates

Author:Coolio

“The source is knowledge. Wanna go to college, or wanna be garbage?”

Education College Source Garbage

Author:Big Daddy Kane

“They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.”

Want Trying Littles Education College Gains Score Little Knowledge Off To College

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.”

Education College Degrees College Degree

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.”

People Mean Doe Ideas Age Funny Jobs Certain College Mass Assuming Thoughtful Good Ideas Graduates Blogging College Graduates

Author:Steve Pavlina

“My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.”

Years Two Moving Left Parent Four Growing College Products Horror Areas Boxes Founders Dylan Juniors Non Stop Bay Area Junior Year

Author:Aaron Levie

“I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.”

States School Cities College Please Members Prepared Jersey Family Members Jersey City

Author:Derek Luke

“A college football star, by his senior year, is used to running out there with 110,000 people going nuts. They feel comfortable in that environment. To me, a set feels like that. The one thing that I do know is that, as long as I'm prepared, I know this environment and this world.”

People Knows World Feels Years Long Running Used Stars Environment One Thing This World Football College Comfortable Prepared Nuts Senior College Football Senior Year

Author:Donal Logue

“For a while after college, I was thinking of becoming a fitness trainer, and I am a certified aqua trainer.”

Thinking College Becoming Trainers Aqua

Author:Dylan Lauren

“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.”

Knows Firsts Seems Would Be America Nations Perfect Leader Class Imagine Students College Citizens Creating Notion Absurd Supposed To Be Sat Diverse Composition Filling

Author:Eric Liu

“If you have a student who graduates from college and they don't have a job, they are now able to stay on their family health plan.”

Ifs Able Jobs Plans Students College Graduates Health Plan

Author:Jacob Lew

“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“Before college, I acted in my room, to classical music, because music tells stories. I'd put on a record and proceed, silently. I'd keep putting the needle back to a certain segment because I hadn't died well enough. I had to really, really feel dead. I'd love to do a death scene.”

Feels Wells Enough Stories Certain Rooms Records College Scene Music Is Died Classical Music Needles

Author:Amanda Plummer

“I was fighting every windmill, especially when I was in college.”

Fighting College Windmills

Author:Bill Parcells

“I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.”

Age Young Class College Fascinated Coast Young Age Hurricanes Meteorology

Author:Jim Parsons

“In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction.”

Comedy Too Much Teacher College

Author:Mary-Louise Parker

“I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.”

Ifs Care School Turns College High School Decided Paid Hated Senior Outstanding

Author:Pauley Perrette

“I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.”

Men College Summer Garbage Jersey New Jersey Dump Yale Switzerland

Author:Tom Perrotta

“I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.”

Ideas Reading Heard College Fascinated Rapture

Author:Tom Perrotta

“Both of my parents graduated from high school, both attended college, both have government jobs now. They've always been very adamant about me finishing high school and finishing college.”

Government School Jobs Parent College High School Finishing Adamant Government Jobs

Author:Chance the Rapper

“I've given some money to the scholarships in the District of Columbia, to the best students in D.C... many of the students have written me letters telling me they could not have afforded to go to college without the scholarship and money I've given them.”

Given Written Students College Letters Scholarship Columbia Best Students

Author:David Rubenstein

“When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.”

Bigs America Culture Difficult Religious Behinds Rights Movement College Serious Treated Civil Rights Shock Irrelevant 1960s Difficult Times Upbringing Culture Shock

Book:Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

Source: Moving the Mountain: Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America

“I was probably a B student in high school, but it wasn't until I got to college that I said, 'Oh! This is what it's all about.' And then I became an A student. I studied journalism in college and that's what really kicked it into high gear for me.”

Said School Students College High School Journalism Gears

Author:Giuliana Rancic

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