The 43 Greatest Quotes About Being In College

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I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I’m over it. I like Hollywood better. Nicole Richie
I went to college for four years. Kim Kardashian
Keg in the closet pizza on the floor left over from the night before, where we were going we didn’t really care. We had all we ever wanted in that keg in the closet. Kenny Chesney
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. Maya Angelou
If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Frank Zappa
My dad grew up in a working-class Jewish neighbourhood, and I got a scholarship from my dad’s union to go to college. I went there to get an education, not as an extension of privilege. Ezra Koening
College isn’t the place to go for ideas. Helen Keller
This is our decision to live fast and die young. We’ve got the vision, now let’s have some fun. Yeah it’s overwhelming, but what else can we do? Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute? MGMT
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. Fred Allen
All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program. Mark Zuckerberg
By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested. Roger Ebert
College is a refuge from hasty judgment. Robert Frost
For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don’t know what’s next. Bill Cosby
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you’ll never be successful. Shia LaBeouf
I’m going to college. I don’t care if it ruins my career. I’d rather be smart than a movie star. Natalie Portman.
When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master’s and I didn’t do it by missing school. Angela Bassett
When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn’t believe I was at. Lena Dunham
You can be 24 and continue to live like you’re at college, or even continue to live like you’re in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult. Ezra Koening
Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they’ll tell you it’s to get an education. The truth of it is, they are there to get the degree so that they can get ahead in the rat race. Too many college radicals are two-timing punks. The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it. Abbie Hoffman
What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one’s wrists? Bret Easton Ellis
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. Malcolm X
I don’t have bed bugs, Kenneth. I went to Princeton. Jack Donaghy
I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. Steve Jobs
[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me. Steve Jobs
I was in college for two years, and just hated it in the ’60s. Kurt Loder
College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity. Tom Ford
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. Judd Apatow
I was a D student in high school and on the dean’s list in college. Patti Stanger
I went to college because I didn’t have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn’t know was possible. Tom Hanks
People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I’d be taking a step back or something. Lindsay Lohan
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions. Maya Lin
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. Wentworth Miller
I was unemployable when I got out of college. Jeffrey Eugenides
I think, especially when you’re in college, each book that you’re reading tends to tell you who you are. Jeffrey Eugenides
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket. Carly Rae Jepson
I have an education, I went to college, you know?
Nicole Polizzi
I loved the college experience of studying. Bradley Cooper
From being at art college, I’ve always hated people that have the gall to think that they’re being incredibly different when they’re doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they’ve seen someone else doing. Sade
I have no urge to go back to college. Kristin Cavallari
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls. Horatio Alger
I wasn’t the trendiest girl at college. Sarah Burton
Christ, seven years of college, down the drain. John Belushi
I miss college. Tiger Woods
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