College Quotes

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

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

Education, Knowledge, Worth

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain

Education, Nothing, Cabbage

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan

Football, Play, Chance

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.
Ray Bradbury

Education, Money, End

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

Education, Library, Laid

I've had tendinitis since college.
Michael Jordan

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

Hard, Start, Married

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

Judgment, Refuge, Hasty

In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball.
Michael Jordan

Life, Travel, Basketball

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.
Bill Cosby

Down, Cry, Next

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers

Until, Turn, Athlete

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

Science, School, Often

I don't believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.
Joel Osteen

Life, Money, Through

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.
Barack Obama

Keep, Kids, Off

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
William James

Education, Good, Aim

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.
Mitt Romney

Bad, Job, America

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Learned, Storm, Economy

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Fred Allen

Law, Learned, Won

Seriousness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke

Stupidity, Sent

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Colin Powell

School, Public, Born

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.
Andrew Shue

Life, Courage, Deep

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.
P. J. O'Rourke

Stupidity, Sent

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
Thomas Merton

Time, America, Wonderful

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman

Life, Children, Others

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling

Parents, Both, Pay

Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all. So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
Paul Ryan

Life, Change, Leadership

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.
Mark Zuckerberg

School, Friends, Advice

I went to college for four years.
Kim Kardashian

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