University Quotes

"My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946"

Henry Taube, Scientist

"The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator"

Jack Youngblood, Athlete

"I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did"

Terry Prachett, Author

"It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete"

Norman Cousins, Author

"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

"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

"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself"

Ella Maillart, Writer

"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

"For my undergraduate work, I went to Oklahoma State University and graduated from there in 1977"

Anita Hill, Professor

"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

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