Tom Riley Quotes

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.

I really want to go to college.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

When I was a student, I couldn't afford anything.

I was the only kid out of six of us to go to college, primarily because my parents could not afford it.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

I am definitely going to college!

I never remember having a plan. All I could think about was how I was going to afford to get into college or where I was going to stay because I hated being at home. I didn't really have time to think about anything in the future. I didn't think about a career or anything. I went to uni, got a couple of jobs, so I sort of funded it myself.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

I went to college for about a year in California.

To make money for college, I worked in our college dining room.

I had to work to put myself through school, so I always worked in the heaviest industries I could find because that's who paid the best.

My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.

When I was at U.C.L.A., I worked my way through school as a tour guide at Universal Studios, and I came in contact with a lot of people in the agency business.

The Christian fact is very straightforward: To be a student is a calling. Your parents are setting up accounts to pay the bills, or you are scraping together your own resources and taking out loans, or a scholarship is making college possible.

When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer had the funds to pay for college. If I wanted to continue, I would have to do it on my own.

It makes no difference how low tuition is if the student has no source of funds to pay that tuition.

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.

So we know that it's not enough for us to simply encourage more people to study abroad. We also need to make sure that they can actually afford it.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

I can't afford to send three kids to college and support four more on a Government salary.

I did just about anything to pay the rent for a while.

I didn't know Penn was an Ivy League school - I didn't know what the Ivy League was. When I got in, they sent me the package, and the tuition was my mother's salary for a year. My mom said, 'We can't afford it.' So I went to the library and found several scholarships and grants and was able to cover 90 percent of my education that way.