University Quotes

"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"

Mary A. Ward

"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"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

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

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University"

Robert B. Parker, Writer

"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"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"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"

Robert Jay Lifton, Psychologist

"The first money I ever had was when I received an award from the American Association of University Women"

Marguerite Young, Author

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

Loni Anderson, Actress

"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"

Roy Romer, Politician

"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"

Roy Romer, Politician

"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"

Juan Cole, Educator

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

Jerry Costello, Politician

"The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not"

Lamar Alexander, Politician

"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"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"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"

Elton Gallegly, Politician

"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"

Jim Henson, Entertainer

"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"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

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

George Stigler, Economist

"No state legislature ever built a great university"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"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, Businessman

"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"

James Tobin, Economist

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

George Stigler, Economist

"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"

George Stigler, Economist

"Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"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"

James Tobin, Economist

"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"

George Stigler, Economist

"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white"

Constance Baker Motley, Activist

"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"

Andrea Mitchell, Journalist

"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"

Anne Campbell, Politician

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

Woodrow Wilson

"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"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"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, Writer

"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"

Thom Gunn, Poet

"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"

Joseph Stiglitz, Economist

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

Emma Bonino, Politician

"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"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"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"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

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

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

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

Leonard L. Levinson

"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"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

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