Henry David Thoreau Quotes

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

I was so pleased to be at university to do physics and mathematics.

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

I dropped out of college for the last time in 1977.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

Education will become the coin of the realm.

In the long run, a second class education always costs more money than a first class education.

I came to Nashville to go to Belmont. I went to school to be a student.

My family has always valued my education.

College is a time where a lot of people try to find themselves.

Getting a good education was of immense importance to my parents.

By the time I got to George Washington University, I had been a straight-A student in high school.

My son going to college is a big milestone.

I'd like to continue my education. The physical stuff's great and I think it's great as an actor because you get to live a lot of little lives, but learning more about the world, learning another language, continuing with my Spanish that's important.

They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

That is especially important as more young people must take on huge debt loads to go to college.

College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

I never went to college. I think about it a lot. I can't watch a game without thinking where I would have been if I had ga head and went to college and pursued my career.

It's okay to be lost in college.

Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed higher education and said, 'The most important skill you can sell is your knowledge.' Or as English majors working at Starbucks put it, 'No it's not.'

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.