Claire Saffitz Quotes

I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out... put myself through high school and then college by working. I'm only a half-year short of a degree in history.

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

I always had ambition. I always knew I was going to go to college. I could party and do that stuff, but I always got straight A's and a 4.0 and all that.

When I went to college, I was doing well in school, but I didn't have any drive to study.

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

I probably didn't put forth the effort I should have put forth, didn't realize the value of education until I went to college.

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.

What college is all about is some kind of 4-year game about who is going to end up with the highest grades. And I don't mean to say that academic achievement isn't important. But it is, after all, a means to an end.

I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

Actually, I've never thought myself as being a particularly hard worker. I've always worked, and I guess my mind is busy all the time. I've been in a lot of things just because of my own intellectual curiosity.

I was a very studious student and usually got A's. I did not like school, because I wasn't popular - I was a nerd.

In college, you become truly independent; your discipline is honed. It has to be there for your studies. It helped make me who I am, and it increased my determination to be the best I could be.

Now that I'm a XXL Freshman, you know, I feel like that sets high standards for me, and I feel like I have to deliver.

I was the girl who did everybody's homework, but I was also, like, student council president and yearbook editor and, like, all-around overachiever. Like, I'm disabled, but I can do anything.

Attending Seattle Central was an awesome experience - it taught me a lot about discipline in a great way.

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

When I left my grandmother's home in 1986 headed to Savannah State with two brown grocery bags filled with my belongings, nothing was going to keep me from realizing my dreams.

I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my sisters, brothers - so I felt like I just had to, and I enjoyed it.

I went to one year of college. I only went to class twice a quarter to pass the tests. I thought it was a waste of time.

Clemson was the best three years of my life.

Georgia Southern was such a big part of me getting my start.