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A man's college and university degrees mean nothing to me until I see what he is able to do with them.
— Henry Ford
I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
— Antony Hewish
I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.
— Andy Samberg
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
The resources of a university, of a college, should not be wasted in merely academic pursuits.
— Howard Zinn
My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
I've learned far too much to know everything.
— J.S.B. Morse
When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
— Tamara Tunie
After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.
— Nigel Hamilton
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
— Louis Tomlinson
The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
— Gene Stallings
Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
— Joan Van Ark
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
— Clive James
At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
— Carl Spitteler
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
I studied journalism at university, and I started a little bit of work on a woman's magazine called Minx that was aimed at 18- to 24-year-olds.
— Rhianna Pratchett
Redound to the university's professed goal of excellence
— Jane Smiley
I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.
— Helen McCrory
A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But
— Steven Weinberg
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
My mother went to university, my father didn't. But they are very educated, very wise people. My father went to the military, so he's worldly.
— Chuck D
War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.
— Paul Virilio
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
— Ken Auletta
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Every job is incredibly different, and I love it because you're picking up skill sets and experiences. It's the university of life.
— Benedict Cumberbatch
I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.
— Ryan Hemsworth
That's what I learned at university: to be me, just what I am, and not worry about it. That knowledge is an invisible magical staff, all by itself.
— Terry Pratchett
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.
— Cate Marvin
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
— Viggo Mortensen
Today, if I could get a job, with face tattoos, being a professor, I would do that. I don't know what university would hire me, but that's my passion.
— Al Jourgensen
I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
— Warren Spector
Kvothe, Defend yourself well at the University. Make me proud. Remember your father's song. Be wary of folly. Your friend, Abenthy.
— Patrick Rothfuss
It's no secret that this is the only place I've ever wanted to work. When people ask me where I went to school, I tell them WWE University.
— Josh Mathews
I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.
— Yasmin Paige
University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.
— Mhairi McFarlane
In 1908, Abdulhamid II established an Islamic university in Beijing, China, to serve China's Hui Muslims.
— Firas Alkhateeb
Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
let's stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality. — Parul Wadhwa
I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.
— Simon Callow
The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom.
— Mahatma Gandhi
[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.
— Camille Paglia
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor.
— Alice Walker
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
— A. Bartlett Giamatti
Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.
— T. S. Eliot
The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It's the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.
— Jason Versey
Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn
— T.D. Jakes
Wizard's work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.
— Lita Burke
Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.
— Asa Don Brown
Dei sub numine viget, Under God's power she flourishes
— Princeton University
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
— Keenen Ivory Wayans
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.
— Richard Hofstadter
It's true that journalism in reality is not the journalism that we learnt in the university. It is far from it.
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa
If my university years taught me anything, it was that the smarter a woman's background, the more primitive her bedchamber
— Rowan Pelling
As a university, we're not focused on bringing about huge reforms - that's not our role.
— William P. Leahy
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
— Steven Holl
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
At university I had a big coloured scarf and people would often say, 'All right, Doctor Who?' And, I thought, I rather liked that notion.
— Matt Smith
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
Now, a recent study from cardiologists at the University of Maryland, has shown that laughter may have a beneficial effect on the heart.
— Allen Klein
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
No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance
— Douglas Adams
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department.
— Beth Henley
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
I went to Huddersfield University Business School. That's where I learned my trade.
— Rob James-Collier
When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.
— Julia Bacha
It is almost possible to measure a writer's skill by the dexterity with which he repeats, and yet avoids monotony.
— George G. Williams
There's nothing you can learn in three years studying media at university that you can't learn in just one month on a local paper.
— Kelvin MacKenzie
The world's oldest university, University of Karaouin, was established by a Muslim woman in Fez, Morocco in 859
— Firas Alkhateeb
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
— Kathryn Harrison
I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
It's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen
— David Nicholls
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 free
society is not only basic to a university but to the entire nation. — James Bryant Conant
society 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
Only twenty-six British universities have total endowments greater than the amount given annually to the Ohio State University football team. I
— Bill Bryson