280 Quotes on University Ratings & Comments

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

Author: Michael York

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

Author: Chen Yang

I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.

Author: Louise Woodward

My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

Author: George Woodcock

Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota.

Author: Dave Winfield

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

I completed medical school at Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1984.

Author: Samuel Wilson

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Author: Kenneth Wilson

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

Author: Prince William

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

Author: Ellen Wilkinson

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Author: Alfred Whitehead

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.

Author: Patrick White

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer.

Author: Mary Wesley

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Author: H. Wells

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

Author: Chris Ware

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.

Author: Mary Ward

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name With somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

Author: David Walliams

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

Author: Eli Wallach

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

Author: Paul Virilio

The term 'cost shifting,' as I use it, refers to those items in a university's budget that used to be reimbursed by the federal government but are no longer paid for by them.

Author: Charles Vest

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Author: Ann Veneman

In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.

Author: Thorstein Veblen

Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street?

Author: Gloria Trevi

I don't expect to go hungry if I decide to leave the University. Resume: Linux looks pretty good in many places.

Author: Linus Torvalds

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

Author: Linus Torvalds

I was born in Champaign in 1918. From the neighborhood elementary and intermediate schools, I went to the University High School in the twin city, Urbana.

Author: James Tobin

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

Author: James Tobin

My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

Author: Henry Taube

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Author: Koichi Tanaka

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Author: Koichi Tanaka

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

Author: Koichi Tanaka

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

Author: Koichi Tanaka

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

Author: Koichi Tanaka

All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

Author: Jalal Talabani

I am President of the UN created University for Peace, which has a strong commitment to the relationship between peace, security and the environment. I meet with young people around the world and I always come away enthused and encouraged.

Author: Maurice Strong

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

After the war, I returned to Minnesota, from which I soon moved to Brown University, and a year later, to Columbia University where I remained from 1947 until 1958.

Author: George Stigler

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

Author: George Stigler

I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

Author: George Stigler

Two years later, I went to the University of Minnesota from which I was on leave for several years during the war as a member of Statistical Research Group at Columbia University.

Author: George Stigler

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

Author: George Stigler

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.

Author: Patrick Stewart

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

Author: Jack Steinberger

I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.

Author: Jack Steinberger

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

Author: Carl Spitteler

For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

Author: Tabitha Soren

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Author: Vernon Smith

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

Author: Frederick Smith

I'm prepared to fight as hard as I can against unions entering the University on behalf of our students.

Author: Ruth Simmons

In the year 1915 a series of trivial incidents led some Chinese students in Cornell University to take up the question of reforming the Chinese language.

Author: Hu Shih

What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.

Author: Mark Shields

Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

Author: Don Sherwood

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Author: George Shaw

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

Author: Ted Shackelford

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

Author: David Sedaris

And for me, it's been, not only where I learned, but the people that I met there. Most of the people that I work with are guys that, one way or another, have been associated with the university.

Author: Jon Secada

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

Author: Jon Secada

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California.

Author: Josh Schwartz

Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system.

Author: Adam Schiff

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

Author: Adam Schiff

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

Author: Thomas Sargent

Initially I had intended to study medicine, but before going to University I had decided that I would be better suited to a career in which I could concentrate my activities and interests more on a single goal than appeared to be possible in my father's profession.

Author: Frederick Sanger

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result.

Author: Frederick Sanger

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy.

Author: Martin Ryle

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

Author: J. Rushton

I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

Author: J. Rushton

I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

Author: Darrell Royal

For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.

Author: Darrell Royal

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt

I have observed private and proprietary colleges, like the University of Phoenix, and the market they serve. And I found it intriguing the way in which they are trying to deliver the product, with more accountability, for a price.

Author: Roy Romer

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.

Author: Roy Romer

No state legislature ever built a great university.

Author: James Rogers

The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.

Author: Abraham Robinson

This line of research continued when I went, and brought my research group with me, to the new University of California, Irvine campus in 1966 to become the founding Dean of the School of Physical Sciences.

Author: Frederick Reines

I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.

Author: Martha Reeves

If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.

Author: Bernice Reagon

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Author: Frederic Raphael

In fact, it used to be a joke if you studied at a University.

Author: Tony Randall

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.

Author: Manuel Puig

When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

Author: Victoria Pratt

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

Author: Terry Prachett

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

Author: Lawrence Powell

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

Author: John Pople

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

Author: John Pople

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

Author: Piper Perabo

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Author: George Pataki

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Author: Rod Parsley

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Author: Sara Paretsky

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Author: Ed O'Neill

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.

Author: Kate O'Brien

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology.

Author: Paul Nurse

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university.

Author: Paul Nurse

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone.

Author: Trevor Nunn

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Author: Eleanor Norton

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

Author: Douglass North

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

Author: Albert Nock

For the animals, they came from the University in Uppsala and all different kinds of clinics here.

Author: Lennart Nilsson

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

Author: Simon Newcomb

I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.

Author: Sam Neill

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

Author: Liam Neeson

So I applied to medical school and received a scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Washington University turned out to be a lucky choice. The faculty was scholarly and dedicated and accessible to students.

Author: Daniel Nathans

Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus.

Author: Elizabeth Moon

So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.

Author: Elizabeth Moon

Later, at Stanford University, I thought I'd become a lawyer or businessman, but my father came to me and said he thought there was a big future in the fine-wine business.

Author: Robert Mondavi

Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.

Author: Kevin Mitnick

When I entered college, it was to study liberal arts. At the University of Pennsylvania, I studied English literature, but I fell in love with broadcasting, with telling stories about other people's exploits.

Author: Andrea Mitchell

We've got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we're setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida.

Author: Chris Matthews

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school.

Author: Camryn Manheim

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.

Author: Ella Maillart

When West End Girls came out on import, I was a student at Liverpool University. I'd go to a club in Liverpool and it would come on, and I'd be really embarrassed.

Author: Chris Lowe

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

Author: Seth Low

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

Author: Lisa Loeb

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Author: Maya Lin

But I spent just two calendar years at Cornell University, though it was covering more than three years of work, and then went to medical school and did become interested in psychiatry, and even helped form a kind of psychiatry club in medical school.

Author: Robert Lifton

I was working for the Socialist International, after I left university in 1959, as a researcher.

Author: Stephen Lewis

A university is a college with a stadium seating over 40,000.

Author: Leonard Levinson

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Author: Edward Levi

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Author: Edward Levi

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Author: Doris Lessing

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

Author: Jay Leno

Kerri and I met at theatre camp when were 16 years old, which is pretty lame. The rest of us met when we founded the State at New York University in 1988. Most of our adult lives have been spent bickering with these people.

Author: Thomas Lennon

As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.

Author: William Leahy

Well the way I ended up with my own record is that I did this concert at Wesleyan University. It was just one night and we had no thought of making a record.

Author: Christine Lavin

Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

Author: Norman Lamm

This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually don't have any memories of this gentleman.

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Author: Charles Kuralt

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.

Author: Mike Krzyzewski

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

Author: Marta Kristen

My studio was on 9th Street between University and Broadway.

Author: Lee Krasner

On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

Author: Walter Kohn

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

Author: Lawrence Klein

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

Author: Lawrence Klein

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

Author: Lawrence Klein

The funds from the sale were put into research and general teaching budgets at the university. Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates, Inc., is now a growing enterprise with many model and other econometric facilities.

Author: Lawrence Klein

Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.

Author: Allen Klein

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

Author: Vaclav Klaus

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Author: Henry Kissinger

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Author: William Kirby

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

Author: Clark Kerr

A recent survey conducted by the University of Minnesota concluded that meth was involved in as many as 81 percent of child protection cases in the state.

Author: Mark Kennedy

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Author: John Keegan

We've already gotten a significant grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and a university consortium. I think the whole sector of Foundations, potentially with government support, is promising - more than promising, I think, it's substantial.

Author: Mitch Kapor

I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.

Author: Quincy Jones

The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.

Author: James Johnson

Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

Author: King James I

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

Author: Clive James

I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Author: Derek Jacobi

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Author: Jesse Jackson

However, I wasn't very good at the sciences, or didn't have a lot of help in the sciences or something but certainly didn't set science for my A level. And when I came to take my A levels I didn't get a good enough result to go to University.

Author: Jeremy Irons

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Author: Thomas Huxley

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic.

Author: Johan Huizinga

I have also been attacked by my opponents as someone seeking to purge university faculties of leftist professors. This is false. The first provision of the Academic Bill of Rights is that no professor should be hired or fired because of his or her political views. I have never myself called for the firing of any professor for his or her political views, nor would I.

Author: David Horowitz

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

Author: David Horowitz

Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Author: Tim Holden

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Author: Richard Hofstadter

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

Author: Richard Hofstadter

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry.

Author: Roald Hoffmann

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.

Author: Betty Hill

For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977.

Author: Anita Hill

I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

Author: Tom Hicks

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Author: John Hickenlooper

One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.

Author: Thor Heyerdahl

I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.

Author: Antony Hewish

Teaching physics at the University, and more general lecturing to wider audiences has been a major concern.

Author: Antony Hewish

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

Author: Jim Henson

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.

Author: Jim Henson

Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.

Author: Beth Henley

In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.

Author: Renny Harlin

Well, I think, you know, the university and the high schools are also important, but depends how I'm going to do in tennis - well, I hope. I mean, it depends, so I don't know yet.

Author: Daniela Hantuchova

The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.

Author: Marilyn Hacker

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

Author: Thom Gunn

I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

Author: Alan Greenspan

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

Author: Harold Greene

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Author: Richard Grant

I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961.

Author: Sue Grafton

If you feel you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

Author: Robert Goheen

I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago.

Author: Laura Giacomo

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.

Author: Clifford Geertz

When the fabric of the universe becomes unknown, it is the duty of the university to produce weavers.

Author: Gordon Gee

Instead, California is one of only 10 states that provides in-state college and university tuition to illegal immigrants. That's grossly unfair to a legal high school student who moves out of California for a year, then returns to attend college.

Author: Elton Gallegly

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

Author: Paul Fussell

I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing.

Author: Stephen Fry

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team.

Author: Hayden Fry

I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.

Author: Karl Frisch

I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.

Author: Karl Frisch

I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year.

Author: David Friedman

We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park.

Author: Jim Fowler

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.

Author: Martin Fleischmann

I had a call to the University of Miami where I'd run a revival in 1950.

Author: Howard Finster

I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university.

Author: Adam Faith

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Author: Jim Evans

When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.

Author: Daniel Evans

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.

Author: Dwight Eisenhower

Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Author: Robert Duvall

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

The University of North Carolina provided me with every tool necessary to rise to the top of my profession.

Author: Rick Dees

I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was growing up, really. So when I decided to go to university instead of drama school, it was with the intention of becoming an actor afterwards.

Author: Hugh Dancy

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa.

Author: John Dalton

I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Author: Jamie Curtis

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

Author: David Crystal

In 1971 I returned to the University of Chicago as Professor of Physics.

Author: James Cronin

My mother, Dorothy Watson, had met my father in a Greek class at Northwestern University.

Author: James Cronin

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

Author: James Cronin

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Author: Norman Cousins

Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.

Author: Jerry Costello

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Author: William Congreve

But September 11 marked a big change in the sense that the public was suddenly interested, and as a professor at a public university I felt a responsibility to respond to all of the inquiries about the Islamic world.

Author: Juan Cole

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Author: Roger Clemens

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. College baseball, I love it.

Author: Roger Clemens

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

Author: Patricia Clarkson

Other than motherhood, the eight years that I spent at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, I have incredibly fond memories of. It's a beautiful place, with four seasons up in Wisconsin. And really wonderful people.

Author: Laurel Clark

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.

Author: John Ciardi

Each university should have a Young Scholars' Committee. I became the chairman of this Committee, and immediately it was permitted to have this plan officially adopted.

Author: Anatoly Chubais

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Author: Carol Christ

The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.

Author: Anton Chekhov

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Author: Michael Castle

Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

Author: Michael Castle

With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.

Author: Michael Castle

When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

Author: Michael Castle

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

Author: Michael Castle

Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

Author: Michael Castle

This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

Author: Michael Castle

And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

Author: Michael Castle

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots.

Author: Michael Castle

And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.

Author: Barbara Castle

My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.

Author: John Carver

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Author: John Carver

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

When you're doing that you lose your focus on the discipline of the business, and how you train people at Hamburger University, and everybody gets on a bigger, different vision, and they're not on the same page.

Author: Jim Cantalupo

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Author: Albert Camus

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Author: Tony Campolo

I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

Author: Tony Campolo

Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that.

Author: Anne Campbell

Ending up-front fees should make it far easier for all students to go to university as they will no longer have to pay up to /1,125 out of their loans at the start of each year. Student loans will also rise to meet average living costs.

Author: Anne Campbell

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

Author: Samuel Butler

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

Author: Gerard Butler

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Author: Anthony Burgess

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Author: William Buckley, Jr.

It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music.

Author: Gavin Bryars

Every year I teach dozens of students at the University of Birmingham. Most of the students on the gender and sexuality courses are women. I guess this is because the boys don't think that gender applies to them: that it's a subject for girls.

Author: Louise Brown

The privilege of being at the university for four years is something I'll always treasure.

Author: Hank Brown

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

Author: James Broughton

I lived at home and I cycled every morning to the railway station to travel by train to Johannesburg followed by a walk to the University, carrying sandwiches for my lunch and returning in the evening the same way.

Author: Sydney Brenner

This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

Author: James Breasted

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

Author: Paul Boyer

The war project at Stanford was essentially completed, and I accepted an offer of an Assistant Professorship at the University of Minnesota, which had a good biochemistry department.

Author: Paul Boyer

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

Author: Paul Boyer

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Author: Emma Bonino

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia.

Author: Julian Bond

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.

Author: Harold Bloom

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Author: Allan Bloom

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

Author: Allan Bloom

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.

Author: Allan Bloom

A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.

Author: Jeffrey Bernard

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

Author: Jeffrey Bernard

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

Author: Shelley Berman

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

Author: Samuel Beckett

My concentration was really on getting to university and becoming a doctor. My parents let me know that school marks were important. Achievement was something which came by hard work.

Author: Roger Bannister

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized.

Author: Roger Bannister

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Author: Russell Banks

I could, I think, quite easily have gone to Oxford. I got four good A levels, but my father's income was such that I wouldn't have got a grant, and he wouldn't let me go to university, and that was the end of it.

Author: Colin Baker

Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

Author: Spencer Bachus

In fact, a University of Connecticut study showed that as many as three in four pre-teens and teens who are exposed to Internet gambling become addicted.

Author: Spencer Bachus

Harvard Medical School, the University of South Florida and the American Psychiatric Association have all conducted studies showing that the earlier one begins gambling, the more likely it is he or she will become an addicted, problem gambler.

Author: Spencer Bachus

It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public that he who holds it possesses a certain quantity of knowledge.

Author: Charles Babbage

I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.

Author: Michael Anderson

I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.

Author: Loni Anderson

I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.

Author: Anthony Anderson

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Author: Sidney Altman

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Author: Sidney Altman

At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

Author: Ralph Allen

Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Author: James Allen

When I was discharged, I attended the University of Paris and met a beautiful Parisian girl, Janine. We soon married and eventually returned to the States.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Author: Kate Adie