Student Quotes

Patience is my virtue, but only in Math, Daddy,” - Ashley

~ Ryanne Salve

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

~ Blaise Pascal

In my illustrious career as a university student, I turned in over 100 papers so that one day, in the end, I got 1 paper in return.

~ J.r. Rim

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

I don’t understand why Universities only offer undergraduate classes during the day when their professional staff should be smart enough to know that a large percentage of their students are non-traditional.

~ Heather Chapple

Instead, every precaution was taken not to violate his rights. Remember, many administrators have no difficulty in expelling a student who utters an unwelcome opinion about the immorality of homosexuality.

~ James C. Dobson

Debt is a trap, especially student debt, which is enormous, far larger than credit card debt. It's a trap for the rest of your life because the laws are designed so that you can't get out of it. If a business, say, gets in too much debt, it can declare bankruptcy, but individuals can almost never be relieved of student debt through bankruptcy.

~ Noam Chomsky

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

~ Og Mandino

It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

~ Gaston Caperton

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

~ William Lyon Phelps

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

~ Christa Mcauliffe

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.

~ Tony Hawk

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

~ Alan Dundes

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

~ Julie Taymor

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

~ M. H. Abrams

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

~ Elisabeth Rohm

I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.

~ John Philip Sousa

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

~ Henny Youngman

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

~ Joshua Bell

School district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs.

~ Eli Broad

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

~ Leslie Fiedler

I wanted to be a teacher, but I was a lousy student, one of the slowest readers. It was a tremendous struggle. But I'm lucky I had some teachers who saw something in me.

~ Ann Bancroft

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

~ Bill Moyers

Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

~ Fidel Castro

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.

~ James Hillman

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

~ Saint Ignatius

South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.

~ Tariq Ramadan

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris, I used to go out and riot occasionally.

~ John Foster Dulles

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

~ Cristin Milioti

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.

~ Anne Sullivan

I would assert that highly effective leaders are made more than they're born. Every leader I know who's been highly effective has worked hard at it, and they've been students of it. The more you're a student of leadership, the more you figure out what works for you and the more effective you're going to be.

~ Douglas Conant

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

~ Donald Trump

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

~ Donald Trump

Banks were once places to hold money and were very careful in lending to finance families as they built a future - bought homes, bought cars, took out student loans.

~ Elizabeth Warren

I treated as few patients as I could as a medical student, and I never practiced medicine.

~ Severo Ochoa

I decided, as a medical student, to devote myself to a study of the brain.

~ John Eccles

My first vote was for a communist in east London when I was a medical student. But I've voted Tory, Labour and Lib Dem in my time.

~ Robert Winston

I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.

~ Samuel Wilson

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

~ Donald Trump