Best Students Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Teaching was my transition from student life to working life. In those days, our system of education was a little different. The number of students in each class was huge. I think in political science general, which I taught, it was around 100.”

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Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Lord Of The Rings fandom was massive, worldwide, entrenched. Generally it had been part of the fans' life all their life, because they had it read to them as children; they'd become Tolkien students.”

Children Lord Fans Students Rings Massive Fandoms

Author:John Noble

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

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Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.”

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Author:Paul Nurse

“I've always loved being a student.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.”

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Author:Jared Polis

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Marisha Pessl

“I am the student who picks his nose, so come over here and take off your clothes.”

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Author:John Hiatt

“If this prinicpal thinks blogging isn't educational, he needs his head examined: he should be seeking out every student blogger in the school and giving them special time to blog more - and giving them extra credit besides.”

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Author:Cory Doctorow

“My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.”

Ifs Wanted Goal Interesting Numbers Information Students Ready Grew Easier

Author:Brian Lamb

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Jacob Lew

“The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.”

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Author:Jim Leach

“Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom.”

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Author:Nancy Pearcey

“The student develops an analytical as well as finely blended character. He is able to choose from a wide variety of job fields from which to embrace a career, without having to be a specialist in one particular discipline.”

Wells Character Able Jobs Careers Fields Students Particular Discipline Embrace Wide Variety Specialists

Author:Philippe Perrin

“The student will try to defy the master. Always.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world.”

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Author:Michael J. Fox

“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.”

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Author:David Rubenstein

“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.”

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Author:Giuliana Rancic

“There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.”

Form Students Lovely Melancholy Professors Abandoned

Author:Josh Radnor

“When I used to teach civil procedure as a law professor, I would begin the year by telling my students that “civil procedure is the etiquette of ritualized battle.” The phrase, which did not originate with me, captured the point that peaceful, developed societies resolve disputes by law rather than by force.”

Years Law Used Force Teach Students Battle Peaceful Phrases Resolve Professors Disputes Etiquette Procedures Captured

Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own.”

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Author:Jessica Seinfeld

“I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.”

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Author:Brian Sandoval

“Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.”

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Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“In regard to music, I just think that it's always best to have an attitude of being a perpetual student and always look to learn something new about music, because there's always something new to learn.”

Thinking Looks Attitude Students Music Is Regard Something New Perpetual

Author:David Sanborn

“I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.”

Made Stories Teaching Students Good Story Reminding Basics

Author:Gil Scott-Heron

“Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water”

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Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“Any good athletic is always in a state of perpetual training, as is the Zen student.”

States Students Health Buddhism Training Perpetual Athletic Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.”

Important Students Disservice Implying

Author:Johann Lamont

“When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.”

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Author:John Lewis

“I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.”

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Author:Jonathan Lethem

“Quite frankly, Barack Obama knows what it's like to pay a mortgage and student loans. He knows what it's like to watch a beloved family member in a medical crisis and worry that treatment is out of reach. Barack Obama knows our struggles. And, my friends, he shares our values.”

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Author:Ted Strickland

“I was a good student in school.”

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Author:Kenan Thompson

“As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.”

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Author:Zoe Tapper

“Given the best of all possible worlds, I would make a few changes. I would place emphasis on increasing the amount of funding that goes into programs like Pell Grants, that purely and simply award funds to students who really cannot afford full tuition.”

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Author:Charles M. Vest

“There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.”

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Author:Fred M. Vinson

“I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.”

Ifs Thinking Important Students Tests Swim Graduates

Author:Ma Ying-jeou

“For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.”

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Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler

“I was a terrible high school student outside of the fact that I did well in physics, but there's a big difference between being good at physics and being a physicist, so I jettisoned that very quickly.”

Wells Facts Bigs School Differences Students Terrible High School Be Good Physics Physicist High School Students

Author:Timothy Simons

“As one might expect, authoritarianism will at times cause children and students to adopt rebellious positions, defiant of any limit, discipline, or authority. But it will also lead to apathy, excessive obedience, uncritical conformity, lack of resistance against authoritarian discourse, self-abnegation, and fear of freedom.”

Children Self Might Causes Society Position Students Discipline Limits Authority Resistance Obedience Conformity Apathy Discourse Rebellious Authoritarianism Abnegation

Book:Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

Source: Teachers as Cultural Workers: Letters to Those who Dare Teach

“It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft.”

Should Writing Firsts May Students Thirds Disappointed

Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“In the New Year, you carry all the experiences of the past years and that is the greatest power of every New Year! This year again, you are less student and more master!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.”

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Book:The Truth (with jokes)

Source: The Truth (with jokes)

“I don't think I was funny until college. I lived with some Harvard MD/PhD students - they were so smart, and what I contributed to the house was, I was the funny one.”

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Author:Wendy Liebman

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Done Stuff Acting Comedy Students Theater Instinct Enjoyed Dramatic

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.”

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Author:Cristin Milioti

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