Student Quotes

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.
Christina Hoff Sommers

Powerful, Run, Grades

I was a terrible English student.
Leon Uris

English, Terrible

What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
Kurt Huber

Simple, Political, Words

I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
Klaus Fuchs

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
Klaus Fuchs

Home, Morning, Why

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
Roy Romer

School, Coming, University

I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student.
Edward Zwick

Remain, Filmmaker, Privileges

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.
James E. Rogers

Makes, Difference, Pay

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.
Aasif Mandvi

Good, Done, Acting

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile.
James H. Breasted

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.
Brian Lamb

Work, Learning, Goal

I tried to steer the student newspaper toward more pertinent information instead of the usual gossip and bull.
Tom Bergeron

Gossip, Tried, Toward

The most superficial student of Roman history must be struck by the extraordinary degree in which the fortunes of the republic were affected by the presence of foreigners, under different names, on her soil.
Henry James Sumner Maine

History, Different, Her

It's very hard to remain a student in life.
Carol Kane

Life, Hard, Remain

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.
David Sanborn

Music, Best, Attitude

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.
Gabriel Mann

Experience, Waiting, Father

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
James Cronin

Education, Real, University

I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time.
Henry Flynt

Music, Time, Learned

I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
Koichi Tanaka

Cannot, Grades, Diligent

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.
John Lewis

Religion, Philosophy, Patient

John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student.
M. H. Abrams

Fun, Another, Students

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
M. H. Abrams

History, Ideas, Interested

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.
Jared Polis

School, Parents, Between

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.
Stephanie Beacham

Money, Young, Speak

I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.
Trishelle Cannatella

Real, Same, Another

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
Bob Inglis

Aid, Deficit, Package

The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
Marion Ross

Great, Classics

I met Hilary Vaughan at a Student Ball in 1944 and we married in the summer of 1946, as soon as I graduated.
James W. Black

Married, Summer, Soon

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.
John Searle

Body, Quite, Liberal

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.
Rudolph A. Marcus

After, Study, Problem

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