| "The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self-educating man." »C. Wright Mills |
| "Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income -- which he then spends sending his son to college." »Bill Vaughan |
| "Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't." »L. L. Henderson |
| "Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future --you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college." »John Green |
| "college isn't the place to go for ideas." »Helen Keller |
| "'Whom are you' he asked, for he had attended business college." »George Ade |
| "Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a college Education." »Mark Twain |
| "Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out." »Mark Twain |
| "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education." »Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Hamlet is the tragedy of tackling a family problem too soon after college." »Tom Masson |
| "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." »John Anthony Ciardi |
| "At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel." »Leon Botstein |
| "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." »Millard Fuller |
| "The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education." »Barnaby C. Keeney |
| "Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth." »Elbert Hubbard |
| "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." »Mark Twain |
| "At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me." »Barnaby C. Keeney |
| "A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life." »Reverend Edward A. Malloy |
| "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me." »Woody Allen |
| "We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Over the years, we have come to identify quality in a college not by whom it serves but by how many students it excludes. Let us not be a sacred priesthood protecting the temple, but rather the fulfillers of dreams." »Robert J. Kibbee |
| "A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues." »Archibald Cox |
| "I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full of grace. a soul generated by love." »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society." »Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve |
| "It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches." »Robert Hutchins |
| "Tommy Did you hear I graduated Richard Yeah and just a shade under a decade. All right. Tommy You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. Richard I know, they're called doctors." »Tommy Boy |
| "Teenagers go to college to be with their boyfriends and girlfriends they go because they can't think of anything else to do they go because their parents want them to and sometimes because their parents don't want them to they go to find themselves, or to find a husband, or to get away from home, and sometimes even to find out about the world in which they live." »Harold Howe II |
| "Sonny Hey, whataya gonna do, nice college boy, eh Didn't want to get mixed up in the Family business, huh Now you wanna gun down a police captain. Why Because he slapped ya in the face a little bit Hah What do you think this is the Army, where you shoot 'em a mile away You've gotta get up close like this and bada-bing. you blow their brains all over your nice Ivy League suit." »Godfather, The |
| "There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again." »Rogers Turrentine |
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