College Quotes

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

~ Jenna Bush

One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

~ Pamela Meyer

Me and my mom made a deal that if something would happen to help me get my start in music, I could get out of college.

~ Kelsea Ballerini

Mom was so funny and loving to us kids. She was our first audience. When my dad died, I was suddenly alone in the house with her because my two older brothers were away at college. I was the man of the house, and she was the grieving woman.

~ Billy Crystal

When my younger sisters were born, I was in high school and college. I was at my mom's all the time but never changed them or fed them.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

~ Rachel Platten

I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

~ Vanilla Ice

Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

~ Liam Aiken

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.

~ Charles B. Rangel

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.

~ Al Franken

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.

~ Billy Eichner

I have a distinct memory, dating back to 1989 or so, of sitting around with my college dorm mates talking about a new term that was popping up everywhere: 'political correctness.'

~ Meghan Daum

Dating in college and dating in Hollywood are actually really similar in that the relationships don't last long. Other than that, lots of people in Hollywood tend to be narcissistic, and it's hard to have a relationship with someone like that.

~ Julia Stiles

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

~ Judith Krantz

One day I said to my dad, 'Are you disappointed that I'm working a minimum-wage job and I didn't go to college?' I'll never forget his response. He said, 'It's not about how much money you make or what your job is, but it's more about your character. For that, I'm proud of you.'

~ Josh Dun

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There's the teaching that we're supposed to be poor to show that we're humble. I don't buy that. I think we're supposed to be leaders. We're supposed to excel.

~ Joel Osteen

If you don't give your kid freedom to make choices with money, including stupid choices, he'll make plenty when he gets to college.

~ John W. Gardner

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

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

~ Jane Goodall

You have to stay in school. You have to. You have to go to college. You have to get your degree. Because that's the one thing people can't take away from you is your education. And it is worth the investment.

~ Michelle Obama

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

~ Mark Twain

The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

~ Bernie Sanders

Education is the key to the future: You've heard it a million times, and it's not wrong. Educated people have higher wages and lower unemployment rates, and better-educated countries grow faster and innovate more than other countries. But going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects.

~ Alex Tabarrok

That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.

~ Gaston Caperton

I think a college education is important no matter what you do in life.

~ Phil Mickelson

You can't have a university without having free speech, even though at times it makes us terribly uncomfortable. If students are not going to hear controversial ideas on college campuses, they're not going to hear them in America. I believe it's part of their education.

~ Donna Shalala

If you have four years to complete your college education, do it.

~ Bo Jackson

The need for a college education is even more important now than it was before, but I think that the increased costs are a very severe obstacle to access. It is an American dream, and I think that one of our challenges is to find a way to make that available.

~ Roy Romer

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

So if a college education is indispensable, the challenge as I see it is how to make it more accessible.

~ Gordon Gee

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

~ Al Mcguire

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

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

~ Orison Swett Marden

When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.

~ Patricia Schroeder

A college education shows a man how little other people know.

~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.

~ Jodi Rell

Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.

~ Michael F. Easley

People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us.

~ Michael Moore

America needs education reform on all levels to expand quality schools, build on past successes, and lower college debt.

~ Kevin Mccarthy