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Biblioll College. Sir, – I have read your letter with interest; and, judging from your description of yourself as a working-man, I venture to think that you will have a much better chance of success in life by remaining in your own sphere and sticking to your trade than by adopting any other course. That, therefore, is what I advise you to do. Yours faithfully, T. Tetuphenay. To Mr. J. Fawley, Stone-mason

Author: Thomas Hardy
Topics: College, Famous, Feelings, Interest, Judging, Meaningful, Read

Children from like 8 and even up to the college age – Spider-Man appeals to a fairly broad demographic but, like I said, a mean age probably of 12 is a good mark – they process information so quickly and it’s not because of attention deficit or short attention span

Author: Thomas Haden Church
Topics: Children, College, Fairly, Famous, Feelings, Information, Life, Meaningful

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

Author: J. Anthony Lukas
Topics: College, Famous, Fear, Growth, Harvard, Revolutionary, Students

College kids seem to look younger with every passing year. It’s one of the hazards of growing older.

Author: J. A. Jance
Topics: College, Famous, Growing, Hazards, Kids, Older, Passing, Years

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

Author: Jimmy Buffett
Topics: College, Famous

I picked up my college copy of ‘The Great Gatsby’ in an attempt to recover from the movie and was interested to find out what I’d underlined. The answer was basically: everything.

Author: Gail Collins
Topics: College, Famous, Interested, Movies, Picked

“I thought I might teach philosophy but the atmosphere of a college faculty repelled me; the few islands of greatness seemed to be washed by seas of pettiness and mediocrity.”

Author: I.F.Stone
Topics: College, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Mediocrity, Might, People, Positive

One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I’d have done even worse if they’d been on a laptop screen.

Author: Gail Collins
Topics: College, Famous, Feelings, Laptop, Lecture, Memories, Screen

My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I’m a talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll dol

Author: Thom Yorke
Topics: College, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Missing, Nickname, Resembles, Tantless, Troll doll

You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I’m interested in. I can’t imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as “Words With Friends” and “Doom.”

Author: Gail Collins
Topics: College, Famous, Interested

The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn’t possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn’t have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

Author: Gail Collins
Topics: College, Famous, Government

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life

Author: Thom Mayne
Topics: College, Famous, Life, Lived, Meaningful, State

It wasn’t until I was in college that I even realized how much I loved film and started to appreciate acting, this beautiful medium of artistic expression. All I wanted to do was go to college, and I thought I wanted to be a teacher.

Author: Gaby Hoffmann
Topics: College, Famous, Film, Love, Realized, Teacher

I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Author: Gaby Hoffmann
Topics: College, Famous, High School, Literature, Meaningful, Walk away

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Author: Gaby Hoffmann
Topics: Business, College, Famous, Important, Thinking

Although I went to college in the United States – Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota – I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.

Author: Kai Bird
Topics: College, Education, Famous, Middle East, Study, United States, University

I Think, If I Had A Dad, I Would Have Went The Normal College Route. I’m So Stoked My Life Panned Out How It Was

Author: Tyler, The Creator
Topics: College, Dad, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Positive

I Think, If I Had A Dad, I Would Have Gone The Normal College Route. I’m So Stoked My Life Panned Out How It Was

Author: Tyler, The Creator
Topics: College, Dad, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Normal, Think

A college degree is not essential, but if you’re already in college, and if it’s at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

 

Author: K. Flay
Topics: College, Community, Degree, Famous, Finish, New Things, Opportunities, Supportive, Trying

In an age of artificial intelligence, too many of our schools and colleges are producing artificial stupidity

Author: Thomas Sowell
Topics: Age, College, Famous, Feelings, Intelligence, Meaningful, Producing, School, Stupidity

One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience

Author: Thomas Sowell
Topics: College, Disservices, Experience, Famous, Judgement, Meaningful, Nation, People, Position, School, Young

The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of The New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C.

Author: H. R. McMaster
Topics: College, Famous, Lost, New York, War

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business

Author: Gabrielle Aplin
Topics: Business, College, Famous, Music, Studied

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

 

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: College, Education, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Known

My father is a college professor and that’s about the extent of my college experience. I’m sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again.

Author: Gabriel Mann
Topics: College, Experiences, Feelings, Human Being, Profession, Professional, Professor, Students, Thinking

I played soccer, recreationally, in college.

Author: Gabriel Luna
Topics: College, Experiences, Famous, Played, Soccer

I’ve been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it’s 11 or 12 years.

Author: Gabriel Luna
Topics: Actors, College, Famous, Freshman

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

Author: Frank Zappa
Topics: College, Famous, Inspirational, Library, Life, Meaningful, Want, Wanted

We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.

Author: Ilhan Omar
Topics: Business, College, Famous, Meaningful

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: College, Hasty, Judgment, Refuge

Don’t join too many gangs. Join few if any. Join the United States and join the family- But not much in between unless a college.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: College, Family, Famous, United States

I don’t recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

 

Author: Ellen Ochoa
Topics: College, Interest, Recall, Receive, Science, Science Fiction, Scientific

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Author: G. M. Trevelyan
Topics: College, Famous, Inspirational

Let it be understood that the University is a preparatory school: it is life that gives you the “finals”—not college.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: College, Education, Final, Preparation, Understand, Understanding, Understanding Language, Universal, Universal expression, Universities

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: College, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hard, Hard conditions, Inspirational, Learning, Learning from Mistakes, Life, Married, Marrying, Meaningful, Mission, Mistake, Never, Never Ending, Positive, Prosperous

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I’ve never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

Author: G-Eazy
Topics: Car, College, Experiences, Famous, Grew Up

I like college football a lot, because it’s the dream that you’re chasing. The dream of one day possibly making it, with the harsh reality that only one percent make it.

Author: Ray Lewis
Topics: College, Dream, Famous, Football, Harsh, Percent, Possibly, Reality

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Topics: College, Famous, Feelings, Week

College isn’t the place to go for ideas.

Author: Helen Keller
Topics: College, Famous, Ideas

In college, my friends called me Mr. James Bond 007 because I entertained everything: blonds, brunettes, redheads. I’m across the board.

Author: Paul Walker
Topics: College, Everything, Famous, Friends, Meaningful

I had a lot of stats in college, and they didn’t count for wins. So whatever it takes to win football games is the goal that I set.

Author: Patrick Mahomes
Topics: College, Count, Famous, Meaningful

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

 

Author: Carl Sagan
Topics: Capabilities, Capacity, College, High School, Science, Struggling, Students, Studied, Young

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard—you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them

Author: Calvin Coolidge
Topics: Challenge, College, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Man, Meaningful, Moving

College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t’hold the stuff as is poured into ’em.

Author: George Eliot
Topics: College, Education, Famous, People

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Author: Matthew McConaughey
Topics: Coach, College, Famous, Meaningful, Teacher

When bright young minds can’t afford college, America pays the price

Author: Arthur Ashe
Topics: Clear-Minded, College, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Price

You’re going through college, and you’re going to be faced with a lot of things. You’re going to face adversity, the main thing is don’t quit. For many people it’s easy to quit, but don’t. That’s what separates the winners from the losers, what separates the all stars from the also-rans.

Author: Mr. T
Topics: College, Famous, Separates

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we’ve got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: College, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, Millionaires, Positive, Scholarship, Tax

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Citizen, College, Demand, Family, Famous, Students, Young

America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Century, College, Famous, Generation, High School, World

With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: College, Community, Economy, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful

I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by… worried… about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith.

Author: B.F. Skinner
Topics: College, Experiences, Faith, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Philosophy, Positive, Professor, Religion

I didn’t go to college, but if I did, I would have taken all my tests at a restaurant, because the customer is always right.

Author: Mitch Hedberg
Topics: College, Customer, Restaurant, Right

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Advice, College, Friend, High School, Number, Program, Siblings

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