College Quotes & Sayings

College Quotes & Sayings

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



You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. - Elbert Green Hubbard



Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. - Marian Wright Edelman



The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past. - Robert Frost



You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school. - Meryl Streep



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.



The colleges, while they provide us with libraries, furnish no professors of books; and I think no chair is so much needed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honours! - Louisa May Alcott



We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



Die and endow a college or a cat. - Alexander Pope



Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth. - Will Rogers



I began my education at a very early age, in fact, right after I left college. - Sir Winston Churchill



Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. - Alice Duer Miller



Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education. - Mark Twain



Yours is a tradition embedded in the history of Christian civilization. The roll of your saints and of your great men and women, your treasures of literature and music, your cathedrals and colleges, your rich heritage of parish life speak of a tradition of faith. And it is to the faith of your fathers, living still, that I wish to pay tribute by my visit. - Pope John Paul II