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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
— Naomie Harris
At the University of Utah we not only educate the mind we transform it.
— Michael K. Young
The universe is a great university.
— Sai Baba
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
— Antony Hewish
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
— Henry A. Kissinger
I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
— Jessica Raine
I graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with an English literature degree and travelled for a year before going to work.
— Natalie Massenet
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
— Howard Zinn
I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.
— Stephen A. Schwarzman
A WEEK BEFORE commencement, at which Stoner was to receive his doctorate, Archer Sloane offered him a full-time instructorship at the University.
— John Edward Williams
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
— Nigel Hamilton
Never too late. Shooting is prayer. And when civilisation shuts up shop, a gun'll be worth any number of university degrees.
— David Mitchell
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.
— James Broughton
We must have a university degree even if we never get a job in the area of knowledge we were forced to study.
— Paulo Coelho
It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.
— Bernie Sanders
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
— Emma Bonino
When it came time to go to the University, it was during the war.
— Daniel J. Evans
When girls were permitted to wear slacks to Creelman on Saturdays in 1963, it was headline news in the Ontarion.
— James G. Snell
There are no lawyers anymore, and the university is closed.
— Margaret Atwood
The university doesn't THINK; the university KNOWS. If the university says it's Thursday, then it's Thursday.
— Carol Plum-Ucci
At university level, I had an economics lecturer who used to joke that I was the only student who handed in essays on British Airways notepaper.
— Sebastian Coe
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
— Paul Virilio
Two preppies from the University of South Florida tried to hit on her with cocaine jokes. Sharon
— Tim Dorsey
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
A collection of books is the best of all universities.
— Thomas Carlyle
I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world.
— Clifford Geertz
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
— Antonio Tabucchi
I didn't go to university or get a degree, but I hired somebody as a mentor - and that I considered my university education.
— Chevy Stevens
Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.
— James Van Allen
The Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.
— Andrey Illarionov
I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.
— Pamela Hanson
Train service is particularly vital for the students and employees of Southern Illinois University.
— Jerry Costello
I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
— Iain Banks
The University of Life is greater than the universities of men.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
He who enters a university walks on hallowed ground.
— James Bryant Conant
In 2006, the state of California spent $3.5 billion on the state university system. It spent $9.9 billion on the state prison system.
— Ken Robinson
Adversity or opportunity is university.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds.
— Michael O'Leary
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
— Winston Churchill
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
— Zubin Mehta
Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.
— Aravind Adiga
In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.
— Jack Steinberger
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.
— Paul D. Boyer
The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was in his eyes.
— Paullina Simons
This analogy can also be found in Jon Pahl, Empire of Sacrifice (New York: New York University Press, 2010), 20. [19]
— Michael Hardin
If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.
— Emilio Ambasz
My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.
— Douglass North
For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.
— Richard Powers
One of reasons I was able to go to university was because of the sacrifices my family made.
— Michael Gove
I went to University of Victoria on Vancouver Island and their theater program.
— Thomas Middleditch
A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant
— Sheryl Sandberg
There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.
— Bill Bryson
I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
— Garth Risk Hallberg
It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.
— Vincent Massey
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Trump University had neither a license nor a charter from New York State certifying it as an institution of higher education.
— Eric Schneiderman
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
— Beth Henley
Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.
— Adam Johnson
I move in the university of the waves.
— Pablo Neruda
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
— Henry A. Kissinger
An Italian university is a contradiction in terms.
— Indro Montanelli
My mom came from such humble beginnings and especially my dad as well. He didn't go to university.
— Petra Stunt
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.
— Parul Wadhwa
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.
— David Alan Grier
Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.
— Ray Bradbury
my digs look as if they've been dug
— David Nicholls
Education stimulates self-study.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Did you hear about the baby just born that was both sexes? It had a penis and a brain. - overheard at the University of Oregon Medical School
— David James Duncan
Diversity of opinion within the framework of loyalty to our freesociety is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation. — James Bryant Conant
It is the function of a liberal university not to give right answers, but to ask right questions.
— Cynthia Ozick
At the university level, introversion predicts academic performance better than cognitive ability.
— Susan Cain
King Solomon did not have a university degree, but had a doctorate in commonsense.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
