College Quotes Quotes

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Helen Keller

A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds dimmed.

Robert Ingersoll

You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage.

George Gobel

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Robert Frost

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

Some people unable to go to school were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors.

Maya Angelou

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

[Steroids are] not healthy, ... There's a real health issue with steroid abuse. At any level, but particularly a young age level. There are many adverse health effects so I think it's a concern we have to take as a college-level group.

Ben Miller

On the day of Pentecost Christianity faced the world, a new religion, without a history, without a priesthood, without a college, without a people, and without a patron. She had only her two sacraments and her tongue of fire. The latter was her sole instrument of aggression.

William Arthur

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

David Hyde Pierce

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society

Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve

Die and endow a college or a cat.

Alexander Pope

There is yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied form, a wrecked forest or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. What ever ails the land, the government will fix it.

Aldo Leopold†

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

John Ciardi