Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of College. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 College Quotes And Sayings by 93 Authors including Gloria Allred,David Brooks,Peter Cook,Tommy Lee,Uncle Kracker for you to enjoy and share.
As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks. -- Gloria Allred
College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few. -- David Brooks
I went to the University of Life and was chucked out. -- Peter Cook
I didn't have the opportunity to go to college. I was busy touring since the age of 17. -- Tommy Lee
The only thing that kept me out of college was high school. -- Uncle Kracker
You should see the way this college is studying! -- Jean Webster
I actually studied in college, for the three semesters that I stayed in school, I don't recommend that, but I studied theater, and in high school I was involved in the drama department. -- Katharine Mcphee
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life. -- Larisa Oleynik
College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood, -- Stephen King
College is for finding yourself. I've established who I want to be. -- Cheyenne Kimball
Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!" -- Chris Rock
Going to college is an amazing opportunity to not only learn and be book-smart but also to kind of stretch your wings and expand yourself as a human and as an artist, whatever it is you're going for. -- Lindsey Stirling
As a community college professor for over twenty years, I've seen the determination, resilience and dedication of countless students. Regardless of circumstances, they show up. They work hard. They believe anything is possible. -- Jill Biden
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. -- Philippe Petit
After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working. -- Evan Williams
I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries. -- Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
attending USC or Occidental. -- Lisa See
You're not going to campus. You're going out to get drunk and play with other ladies' boobies. - Kye -- Krista Alasti
To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason. -- Ayn Rand
College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink -- Chuck Palahniuk
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. -- Barry Mann
Colleges and classrooms should be havens of tranquility, places where thoughtful discussions occur, where students work together with their teachers to acquire knowledge of the arts and sciences. -- Jay Parini
College mostly makes people like bladders -
just good for nothing but t' hold the stuff as is poured into 'em. -- George Eliot
Colleges do not merely offer preparation for the future; they occupy four years of a student's life, and an institution should do what it can to make these years absorbing and enjoyable. -- Derek Bok
College is a secluded life of scholastic vegetation -- Vera Brittain
I was always kind of a school person - my parents were teachers, and my grandparents were immigrants, so their big thing was, 'Go to college, go to college, go to college.' -- Mayim Bialik
I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us. -- Dale J. Stephens
College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner. -- Robert B. Parker
Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise. -- Steven E. Landsburg
I went to a comprehensive school and didn't go to university. -- Kenneth Branagh
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification. -- Derek Bok
That's another piece of advice: Don't go to college; follow your dreams. Unless you're a doctor - then go to college. -- Adam Devine
I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career. -- Christie Laing
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. -- Max Beerbohm
College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back. -- Ossie Davis
I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise. -- Susan Orlean
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses. -- Walter Jon Williams
Colleges don't make fools, they only develop them. -- George Horace Lorimer
I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night. -- Jim Crace
I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. -- Ed O'neill
I grew up near the University of Michigan, so we'd sneak into college parties. That's where my acting started - lying about the professors I supposedly had and what I was studying. -- Mircea Monroe
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. -- Martha Reeves
When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey. -- Dan Rosensweig
College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified. -- Korey Miracle
College is a different scene than it was ten years ago. It used to be all about sex and drugs. Now it's all about texting and fast food. -- Aaron B. Powell
College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts. -- Pat Conroy
I actually didn't really go to college. I enrolled and never showed up. Being on a college campus where we shot some of the scenes in 'The Goodwin Games' ... it did make me wish that was an experience that I had. -- Adam Rodriguez
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 Gildersleeve
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time. -- William A. Henry Iii
College is fun as long as you don't die. -- Tsugumi Ohba
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals. -- Spiro T. Agnew
Plenty of girls saw college as some sort of exploratory period. -- Tammara Webber
Don't go to college, unless to get knowledge. -- Satchel Paige
I loved the college experience of studying. -- Bradley Cooper
College is so awesome! It's really too bad they try to ruin it with classes! -- Jillian Dodd
the primary purpose of college is to become a learner. -- Matthew Sanders
Instead, most colleges are studies in obsolescence. -- Kent Mccord
I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them. -- Patrick Rothfuss
College was the greatest four years of my life. -- Jennie Finch
At college, more than anywhere else, one was likely to make the friendships that supported one through life. -- Vera Brittain
An almost seismic sense of expectation emanates from a college campus. That is the true elixir of youth: the grand, the glorious, the magnificent hopes and dreams because all things - all things - are yet possible. -- Carolyn Hart
Growing up in college, in high school, I was the focal point. -- James Harden
If you could arrange to avoid that routine job-world, you were an intellectual or an artist. Too restless, tremorous, agitated, too mad to sit at a desk eight hours a day, you needed an institution - a higher institution. -- Saul Bellow
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
College was a wonderful time - except, of course, when it was trying to teach you things. -- Bill Cosby
Don't Dare take your college as a matter of course- because like freedom and democracy, many people you'll never know anything about have broken their hearts to get it for you. -- Alice Duer Miller
In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn't sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school. -- Ray William Johnson
I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges. -- David Talbot
I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out. -- Caitlin Rose
University is the best couple of years of your life. Nowhere else can you drink and chase as many birds. -- Michael O'leary
IN COLLEGE, I FELT LOST. -- Lauren Berger
I graduated from the University of Whatever. -- Dana Snyder
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. -- Ray Bradbury
You have been told that Real Life is not like college, and you have been correctly informed. Real Life is more like high school. -- Meryl Streep
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. -- William Standish Knowles
Perhaps what we should be asking at cocktail parties is not, Where do you go to school? but, Why did you go to school? -- Race Bannon
Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream. -- Ernest L. Boyer
Around the college had grown up in the latter nineteenth century a hap-hazard, ill-blanced collection of professional schools, attended by hard-working meagre creatures with the fun drained out of them... -- Yale University
After a year, I thought gee I don't really need college anymore, which wasn't correct, but that's what I thought. -- Tod Machover
I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do. -- Harmony Korine
Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself. -- Daryl Hall
For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl. -- Missy Franklin
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year. -- William Styron
Oh, why does college have to happen to perfectly good people? -- Rick Riordan
A university is not about results in the next quarter; it is not even about who a student has become by graduation. It is about learning that molds a lifetime, learning that transmits the heritage of millennia; learning that shapes the future -- Drew Gilpin Faust
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.' And from 'debt' it's just a short hop to other unpleasant words, like 'payola,' 'kickback,' and 'bribery.' -- James Surowiecki
At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience. -- Tommy Lee
The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes. -- W.e.b. Du Bois
I never went to college, so I went to the library. -- Ray Bradbury
The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man. -- George Horace Lorimer
Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world. -- Kent Mccord
I tried college for three months but I was desperately unhappy. I just wanted to perform. I was getting straight As but I had no friends and cried every day. -- Keira Knightley
Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works. -- Larisa Oleynik
College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus. -- Jerry Kramer
I finished high school, so now I'm planning to take a few classes in college when I'm not working. -- Megan Lee
My favorite college experience was probably leaving college. -- Marshawn Lynch
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. -- Tom Ford
Campus ... brings back so many memories that I would ... have made ... -- Michael Scott
Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all. -- David Mccullough
College is about three things: homework, fun, and sleep ... but you can only choose two. -- Andy Stern
