“When I was going to college, there were probably four colleges in the nation that offered a major in meteorology. I wasn't fortunate enough to be in a part of the country where that was readily accessible. I have been doing weather since I graduated from college. I feel solid about what I'm doing.” FeelsHas BeensCountryEnoughNationsFourCollegeMajorsWeatherFortunateGoing To CollegeMeteorology Author:Sam Champion
“As far as the fashion of mod 60's goes...I've always loved it. I bought a mod dress while still in college for an audition I had for Marsha Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie. It may have been a little too mod for the American 60's, but I think it worked just fine. I ended up wearing it a lot and it became one of my favorite pieces.” ThinkingMayLittlesHas BeensStillsPiecesFashionCollegeFineDressesMy FavoriteBunchAuditionsBradyModsBrady Bunch Author:Erica Schroeder
“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.” PeopleLooksHas BeensStepsCollegeCostBillsEstablishmentStimulusRecessionsStep UpImpedimentsCollege EducationTarp Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.” MenWayYearsHas BeensSaidDifferentKidsThreeFatherCollegeHe ManMetsMarriedFabulousCollege Education Author:Anna Quindlen
“I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.” ThinkingMenBelieveKindHas BeensIdeasDoneYoungSpeakStruggleFeminismDangerousCollegeMen And WomenOkayYoung Women Author:Jessica Valenti
“There has to be some more regulation. But our kids have this incredible buffet of they can work in genomics, they can work in pre-omics, or they can work in robotics, or they can work in this, or they can work in that. And within the next five years there will be entirely new industries that come out of nowhere that kids are working in that would have been inconceivable when they started college. Not when we started college.” YearsHas BeensKidsNextFiveCollegeIndustryIncrediblesFive YearsRegulationRoboticsBuffetsGenomics Author:Juan Enriquez
“I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was at least trying to write poems then.” WritingTryingHas BeensCollegeFreshman Author:Edward Hirsch
“Hillary Clinton has been The Smartest Woman in the World in her circle since 1970 when she went away to college.” WorldHas BeensCollegeClintonCircles Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.” IfsHas BeensLawPoorCollegePagesUniversityCampaignsPresidentialGradesConsistentlyFilesPresidential CampaignSyracuse Author:Joe Biden
“Our family has been honored to serve our state and nation. Like many American families, we have been fortunate and blessed to raise three wonderful children and put them through college while doing work that we love.” ChildrenHas BeensStatesThreeNationsWonderfulCollegeRaisesBlessedFortunateOur FamilyHonoredAmerican FamilyWonderful Children Author:Mike Pence
“Donald Trump has not gone to historical black colleges - Hillary Clinton. He's not met with the mothers of children who have been slain and killed from violence in the country as Hillary Clinton has done.” ChildrenHas BeensCountryDoneMotherBlackGoneViolenceCollegeTrumpMetsHistoricalClinton Author:Donna Brazile
“If my life is any example, the work that youth workers are doing is very, very important. It tends to get marginalized in the church or seen as less important than being a senior minister in a large, prosperous congregation; but I don't believe that for a minute. I think this is absolutely critical work in the life of the church; and I think my path in life would have been much different if it hadn't been for my youth minister, Burt Randle, and a series of campus ministers in both college and graduate school.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensImportantDifferentSchoolLife IsChurchPathMinutesExampleYouthCollegeSeriesWorkersDon't BelieveCriticalMinistersGraduatesSeniorProsperousCampusCongregationMarginalizedGraduate School Author:Parker J. Palmer
“In actual fact, I have been an academic - a college and university teacher and scholar - for much of the last 45 years, and only rarely a writer.” YearsHas BeensFactsLastsTeacherCollegeUniversityAcademicScholarColleges And Universities Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.” PeopleIfsHas BeensTodayPastClassStruggleCollegeHugeReturnVictoryGainsPaidMedicineIncludingProfitSocialismMassiveHealthcareWorking ClassFundingPublic ServiceSwedenCollege EducationNorwaySocialized MedicineScandinavia Author:Kshama Sawant
“The ranks of educated professional swelled as more Americans went to college and more Americans sort of adopted a more cosmopolitan lifestyle and worldview. And as the Democrats were looking for an alternative to the unions who no longer seemed like a large enough base for the party, they found the educated who veered more toward a progressive cultural outlook, who may have had - may have been working in the financial sector, in entertainment, in media, in universities. That became really the rank and file of the Democratic Party over a long period of time.” MayLongHas BeensEnoughFoundPartyMediaCollegePeriodsUnionsDemocraticDemocratUniversityFinancialEntertainmentLifestyleEducatedAlternativesProgressiveAdoptedOutlookFilesDemocratic PartyWorldviewLong Periods Of Time Author:George Packer
“I think there are many people in the working class who say, you know what? Yes, maybe we are better off than we were eight years ago, but I am still working two or three jobs, my kid can't afford to go to college, I can't afford child care, my real wages have been going down for 40 years. The middle class is shrinking. Who's standing up for me?” PeopleThinkingKnowsYearsChildrenHas BeensStillsI CanTwoRealCareKidsJobsThreeClassMiddleCollegeYears AgoStandingEightMiddle ClassWorking ClassWagesBetter OffShrinkingChild Care Author:Bernie Sanders
“The Electoral College has been with us since the first days of America.” FirstsHas BeensAmericaCollegeElectoral College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.” IfsThinkingHas BeensI CanGamesCareersWatchesCollegePursued Author:Rakim
“If we didn't have the Electoral College there would have been no George W. Bush presidency. Algore would have been elected. The Democrats have not gotten over that, and they never will get over the recount, the aftermath of that election in 2000. They are still animated by it today. It is a significant portion of the rage and anger they carry around with them every day, so they want to get rid of it.” IfsWantHas BeensStillsTodayCollegeElectionDemocratRageSignificantPortionsPresidencyGet OverAnimatedAftermathElectoral CollegeRage And Anger Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If jazz education in our colleges were free to all it would provide thousands of good jobs in the music industry which has been taken over by corrupt millionaires and billionaires.” IfsHas BeensJobsTakenCollegeIndustryJazzGood JobMillionaireBillionaireMusic Industry Author:Bernie Sanders