Marian Wright Edelman Quotes

First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and going for a graduate degree in engineering.

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.'

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

I went to law school after college.

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.

My master's degree was in English literature.

All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.

I can remember very clearly sitting in a little room in my apartment going, 'You know what, Jace? I think it's time to go back to university.'

I went to Carnegie Mellon for a year and a month or two, and then I dropped out because I got a movie. I didn't anticipate ever leaving school - I was a really serious drama student - and then that happened, and my life sort of took a turn.

I went to, while I was in the military, Western New England College for my MBA and New England School of Law for my law degree.

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.

I was a literature major in college and that was my thing, books.

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absorbing interest in these subjects.

I went to law school with President Obama.

I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.

I was a chemistry major when I first went to college, which turned out to be a huge mistake. When I realized that, I decided to try an early journalism course.

I did study with Anne Carson briefly in Michigan. She taught there, and that's where I first encountered her, in her class.

I had always wanted to go to college but found my life taking a different path.

I grew up reading a lot on literature and all of that.

I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'

When I moved to Bengaluru to study law, I was looking forward to joining a theatre troupe.