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Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields such as social work.
— Stephanie Coontz
Boston was a great town to go to college in. Maybe that's why there's so many colleges there. I love the town, and I loved Boston University.
— Jason Alexander
A number of American colleges are willing to pay a tempting amount to pinch and poke an author for a day or two.
— John Updike
Most people who own colleges in India haven't. Stupid people go to college. Smart people own them,
— Chetan Bhagat
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
— Carter G. Woodson
The conformist is not born. He is made. I believe the brainwashing process begins in the schools and colleges.
— J. Paul Getty
All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge.
— Mark Twain
Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.
— Adam Carolla
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
— Phyllis Schlafly
Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "
— Henry Rosovsky
When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
— Adam Sandler
Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach.
— Will Rogers
It's a good idea to revitalize community colleges, to cut back, to modify the student loan program so it doesn't go through banks.
— Noam Chomsky
The state of Virginia had turned down twenty-one thousand women for admission to state colleges in 1970 while not turning away a single man ...
— Meg Waite Clayton
In engineering colleges, they have seating plans ... And Students have cheating plans.
— Lovely Goyal
Colleges produce more sports therapists than engineers. Perhaps because America is a sporty country: a lot of outdoors.
— Azim Premji
I recommend that you change colleges.
— Mark Rippetoe
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
— Laura Matilda Towne
We were scholars long before colleges.
— Nasir Jones
Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.
— William A. Henry III
Colleges would compete by adding professors, enhancing programmes or building nicer facilities. So they competed by making institutions better.
— Clayton M Christensen
As president, I will fight to make tuition in public colleges and universities free, as well as substantially lower interest rates on student loans.
— Bernie Sanders
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She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.
— Damian Green
Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
— Learned Hand
The best colleges admit only successful students, offering no evidence the college itself forged the students' late success.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements'; there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance.
— Henry David Thoreau
The majority of the Big Ten towns are college towns. The colleges are kind of what run the towns.
— Steve Alford
I'm sure that being an applicant from the American School in Vienna helped get me into all seven colleges I applied to.
— Thomas G. Stemberg
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
— Constance Baker Motley
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
All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace?
— Audrey Hepburn
Robotics is very interdisciplinary, and so, except at a very few colleges, there is not a major that is exactly fitted to robotics.
— Rodney Brooks
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence.
— Kent McCord
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
— Thomas Sowell
College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Instead of studying books so constantly, how I wish that our schools and colleges might learn to study men and things!
— Booker T. Washington
I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.
— Rosie O'Donnell
I kept going to different colleges, but dropped out.
— Spencer Dryden
On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.
— Patrick Modiano
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them.
— George Horace Lorimer
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.
— Clayton M Christensen
Community colleges are the great American invention in terms of education,
— Eduardo J. Padron
Our colleges ought to have lit up in us a lasting relish for a better kind of man, a loss of appetite for mediocrities.
— William James
A number of U.S. colleges are going to start having dorms for alcoholics. I believe those are called dorms.
— Craig Ferguson
It's just blind luck when a woman is born into a wealthy family and attends the best colleges and joins top sororities.
— Betty Dodson
American colleges and universities are propaganda machines
— Walter Benn Michaels
I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.
— Freeman A. Hrabowski III
If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?
— W.E.B. Du Bois
Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Either way, Grayson found it ironic how such dissimilar circumstances, colleges, and mental hospitals, had led to the same awful apartment.
— Dorothy McFalls
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Colleges [have] forfeited the responsibilities of in loco parentis and have gone into the pimping and brothel business.
— Vigen Guroian
Look at where Jesus went to pick people. He didn't go to the colleges; he got guys off the fishing docks.
— Jeff Foxworthy
I believe that the fragile-flower, idea-intolerant society of victimhood that is being cultivated in many colleges today is really bad.
— Gene Weingarten
Colleges should remember that selecting students by GPA more often benefits the faithful drudge than the original mind.
— William Deresiewicz
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.
— Barack Obama
Teachers of science in schools and colleges must be masters of the tools for ensuring integrity in science and must instill them in their students.
— Lewis M. Branscomb
I was trying to get out of the night clubs and was thinking maybe I'll go to the colleges now; that's where you can speak your mind.
— George Carlin
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson