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The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

~ Tony Hillerman

Tony Hillerman Great College Win

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

~ G. M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan College Book Never

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

~ Ruth Ann Minner

Ruth Ann Minner Children School College

I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.

~ William Godwin

William Godwin Time College Rose

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

~ Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Ochoa Teacher School College

I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.

~ Mitchel Resnick

Mitchel Resnick College You

I had been interested in science from when I was very young, but after a disastrous summer lab experience in which every experiment I tried failed, I decided on graduating from college that I was not cut out to be a scientist.

~ Martin Chalfie

Martin Chalfie Experience College Summer

I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.

~ Rae Carson

Rae Carson Education College Writing

In my brief sojourn in college, my favorite classes were political science because I loved the idea of systems we can set up that benefit society - rules we can put in place that sometimes you run against, sometimes they're painful, but ultimately they benefit the world.

~ Matt Mullenweg

Matt Mullenweg College Society World

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

Carl Sagan Education School College

I don't recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college.

~ Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Ochoa College Interest Later

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

~ Danica Mckellar

Danica Mckellar Home School College

I had been a college teacher. I had taught Greek mythology.

~ Wes Craven

Wes Craven College Mythology

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

~ George J. Mitchell

George J. Mitchell History College Goal

I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

~ Joss Whedon

Joss Whedon Work Experience College

My daughter became a teacher right out of college.

~ Al Franken

Al Franken Daughter College Right

A coach, especially at a college level - much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level - you're more of a teacher than an actual coach.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

Matthew Mcconaughey School College High School

I come from a family of educators. My sister is a college teacher. My dad is a college teacher, but first a junior high teacher.

~ J. K. Simmons

J. K. Simmons Family Sister College

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

~ John Krasinski

John Krasinski Day College Walking

I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

~ Butch Trucks

Butch Trucks College Back Math

In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.

~ Forest Whitaker

Forest Whitaker School College Me

My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.

~ Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta Father Great College

I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.

~ Janet Fitch

Janet Fitch College Writing Me

I think day care is terrific. Kids get to be around other kids, and they're playing, and they're teaching each other. When I was in college, my summer job was being a preschool teacher. I loved it, and after that experience, I said I can't wait to put my kid in day care because I could see how much they loved it.

~ Jessica Valenti

Jessica Valenti Day Experience College

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

~ Meg Cabot

Meg Cabot Life College Greatest

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

~ Taylor Schilling

Taylor Schilling Life Support College

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

~ Simon Callow

Simon Callow Mother Vision College

There happened to be guitar classes at the college, and there was a guitar teacher there with whom I used to play. In addition, I also would go out into country schools and teach little kids basic guitar and singing a few times a week.

~ Mark Knopfler

Mark Knopfler College Week Guitar

I had a teacher when I was in college, and he was the first person who liked my photos and said, 'The way you look at girls is your own way of seeing.' He was the first person who really gave me the confidence to try something.

~ Sofia Coppola

Sofia Coppola Confidence College Me

In high school, a teacher's friend in the police department asked me to go into a bar and flash a fake ID saying I was 21 even though I wasn't. They were assuming the bar wasn't carding people. Anyway, she forgot to ask for it back. I used it all freshman year in college.

~ Betsy Brandt

Betsy Brandt School College Me

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.

~ Jason Biggs

Jason Biggs Friends College Leaving

The Clinton strength was to play to people without a college education. High school people. That's how you win elections.

~ Stephen Bannon

Stephen Bannon Education School College

Liberals tend to stress how marvelous education is, in and of itself, and also adore it as a vessel for genuine equality. (That's me, by the way: Hell, I think we should be spending $50 billion a year to make college education free).

~ Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein Education Stress College

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

~ Elon Musk

Elon Musk Change College World

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

~ David Cassidy

David Cassidy College Me Living

I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.

~ Sarah Dessen

Sarah Dessen Love School College

Going to college and studying music is not a bad idea at all. I don't know if you can go to college and be taught heart.

~ Blake Shelton

Blake Shelton Heart College Studying

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

~ Terri Windling

Terri Windling Love College Girl

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

~ T. D. Jakes

T. D. Jakes Home School College

I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Cecelia Ahern Life Job College
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