Quotes about College Students

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students. Votes: 5

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. Votes: 5

The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education. Votes: 5

A telephone survey says that 51 percent of college students drink until they pass out at least once a month. The other 49 percent didn't answer the phone. Votes: 5

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. Votes: 5

The Pell Grant is more than a financial aid program for college students in need. It is the right thing to do for America's college students, and it is the right thing to do for America's economy. Votes: 5

I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise. Votes: 5

Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor. Votes: 5

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown. Votes: 3

College students who tend to study alone learn more over time than those who work in groups. Votes: 3

Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? Votes: 3

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight. Votes: 3

I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny. Votes: 3

I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university. Votes: 3

Democrats have been doing everything they can to get young people and college students to vote in the midterms. Though if you want students to participate in something, maybe you shouldn't call them midterms. Votes: 3

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts. Votes: 3

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia. Votes: 3

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them. Votes: 3

The movies that I did in the '80s were either good or bad, but I never was oppressed with any feeling - I mean, I thought it was ridiculous to play high school or college students when I was 30. But at the same time, that was really done then. Votes: 3

Noises and smells, those can bring back powerful memories. I remember when I was going to school one Fourth of July, and there were a lot of fireworks going off. I knew that I was in Richmond. I knew that I was a college student. But I thought people were shooting at me. Votes: 3

As a child growing up in the precincts of wealth, and later as a college student, newspaper reporter and resident of New York's Upper East Side, I got used to listening to the talk of financial killings and sexual misalliance that animates the conversation of the rich and the familiars of the rich. Votes: 3

In the sixties, in the middle sixties, suddenly comics became this hip thing, and college students and hippies were reading them. So I was one of them, and I started reading, basically it was the Marvel Renaissance at that point. It was all their new characters, Spiderman and the X-Men and the Fantastic Four. Votes: 3

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. Votes: 3

We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for your entire life. The challenge is to come up with more complex understandings of where we are, more global awareness of what connects Americans with what is happening with suffering and oppressed people all around the world. Votes: 3

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college. Votes: 2

There's definitely a world view among college students that appreciates the need to act in the international community. Votes: 2

Engineering college students should be encouraged to start entrepreneurial ventures in their second year itself. It is safer to fail while in college. Votes: 2

Our campaign is powered by college students who are not about to let the first genocide of the 21st century happen on their watch. Votes: 2

Credit card companies pay college students generously to stand outside dining halls, dorms, and academic buildings and encourage their fellow students to apply for credit cards. Votes: 2

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world. Votes: 2

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject. Votes: 2

I'm proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It's a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition. Votes: 2

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English. Votes: 2

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too. Votes: 2

College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increased incidence of the disease during adolescence and young adulthood, as well as transmission from crowded living conditions and social behaviors common among college students. Votes: 2

Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. Votes: 2

I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating. Votes: 2

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece. Votes: 2

In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World. Votes: 2

I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program. Votes: 2

There is a woman named Wendy Wood, who did a study when she was at Duke, and she followed around college students to try to figure out how much of their day was decision-making versus how much was habit. And what she found was that about 45 percent of all the behaviors that someone did in a day was habit. Votes: 2

I was an exchange student for a summer, and most of that summer was in Ukraine. I used to say 'the Ukraine' until I was there, and one of the Ukrainian college students I got to be good friends with, he said, 'Do you say I'm going back to the Texas,' and I said, 'No.' He said, 'We don't say we're going back to the Ukraine, either.' Votes: 2

Most college students are not as smart as most college presidents. Votes: 0

Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education. Votes: 0

College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink Votes: 0

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. Votes: 0

If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything. Votes: 0

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries. Votes: 0

I smoked with a lot of college students... Most of em wasn't graduatin, and they knew it. Votes: 0

The tenth social network, and limited only to college students with no money, also terrible. Myspace had won. Votes: 0

Until these college students came into town, we were all very poor and didn't have money to do anything. Votes: 0

I've seen with my own students, community colleges offer an affordable route to four-year college degrees and good paying jobs. Votes: 0

We need to make college affordable in price, and also have lower-cost student loans and more available grants for students. Votes: 0

The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. Votes: 0

I strongly support extending current student loan interest rates and increasing the college tuition tax credit for students and their families. Votes: 0

All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace. Votes: 0

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep. Votes: 0

While there are many obstacles that deter students from going to college, finances by no means should be the deciding factor. Votes: 0

People got out of the way for Cam. He was like a hot Moses, parting a sea of drunk college students. Votes: 0

Many of my students don't know that I'm second lady of the United States... because, you know, it's a community college. Votes: 0

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out. Votes: 0

Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case. Votes: 0

Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursing, medicine, teaching and law, with crushing debt burdens. Votes: 0

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. Votes: 0

In college, [Christian students] are assaulted by secular relativism, and if we don't prepare them, they will be like lambs led to slaughter. Votes: 0

College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either. Votes: 0

College is about exposing students to many things and creating an aphrodisiac atmosphere so that they might fall in lifelong love with a few. Votes: 0

Warren Street was at the high end of the New Romantic scene. They were mostly college art students and people who knew top designers. Votes: 0

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed. Votes: 0

It's hard to have any moral authority over a group of drunken college students when you have never had a beer and never been laid. Votes: 0

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students. Votes: 0

The result was, when Congress convened in January 1971, everyone was now an environmentalist. They had seen a new force, college students, who favored the environment. Votes: 0

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. Votes: 0

I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency. Votes: 0

This is a win for the 4-year-olds who require pre-K, the low-wealth counties that need assistance with school construction and the disadvantaged students trying to go college. Votes: 0

We all have a role to play - the President, Congress, parents, students and schools - in making college affordable and keeping the middle class dream alive. Votes: 0

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions? Votes: 0

There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very authentically looking for truth. Votes: 0

I tell college students, when you get to be my age you will be successful if the people who you hope to have love you, do love you. Votes: 0

Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government. Votes: 0

For the first time on Planet Earth (in 1964 America), a nation was made up of more college students than farmers. An unheard-of 42% of high school graduates sought higher education. Votes: 0

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies. Votes: 0

Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school. Votes: 0

Texas is reportedly going to give college students the right to carry guns on campus. So I guess that next semester, every college student in Texas is getting straight A's. Votes: 0

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students. Votes: 0

Angela Duckworth has shown how important grit and perseverance are to lifetime outcomes. College students who report that they finish whatever they begin have higher grades than their peers, even ones with higher SATs. Votes: 0

College students today are drowning in debt, and it is hurting them and hurting our economy. We must find a way to help families pay for college without condemning them to a lifetime of indebtedness. Votes: 0