George Gobel Quotes

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 think people who don't go away to university are missing out on one of the great life experiences. You meet people from so many different places and it's the shared life experience that helps you grow.

I think I really benefited from going to college.

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.

I've had the career experience. I've had the experience of taking care of myself. I'm going to college because I genuinely want to learn.

I loved my experience in college.

Obviously, college was an unbelievable experience.

My mother got married at a very young age, but she did her B.A., B. Ed and M.A. after marriage.

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices.

The things I wanted to do from a very early age - ie. get married and have children - precluded a lot of guys my own age from wanting to have anything to do with me.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

College wasn't something I saw myself doing.

Going to college was something that I didn't want to do.

At Year Up, our students - low income 18-24 year olds - come to us having already faced substantial obstacles in life. They are not in search of a handout; what they want most of all is the ability to take ownership of their own futures.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settled with kids, so I can understand people asking, and I even get it from relatives, but I'd be a fool to miss these work opportunities. And there's no time limit. One day I'll find my prince, but at the minute, I'm enjoying kissing a few frogs.

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.

I plan to go to college in Southampton, a fishery studies college. Again, my brother was down there about two years ago and he said it was great, so I'm looking forward to that.

I got quite the college experience.

College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.

For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

When I was in high school I thought I was going to university into psychology.