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

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

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

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

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

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

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
Robert Frost

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

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

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

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

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

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

A white boy that makes C's in college can make it to the White House.
Chris Rock

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.
Dave Barry

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight

I have a daughter who is a sophomore in college and another who is in the 11th grade of high school.
Thomas Friedman

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.
Woodrow Wilson