College Quotes

When I was in college I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world. Now I am.

Elon Musk

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

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

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Victor Hugo

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

Anyone who refuses to speak out off campus does not deserve to be listened to on campus.

Theodore Hesburgh

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

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

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Don't be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Richard Bach

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

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

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.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

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

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Margaret Fuller

At best, most college presidents are running something that is somewhere between a faltering corporation and a hotel.

Leon Botstein

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.

L. L. Henderson