College Expenses Quotes

I don't come from a family that had the money to put me through college, so I left school with $100,000 in student loan debt.

I have a daughter in college myself. It's an expensive thing.

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, "If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college." Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. "If it weren't for my horse..." as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — "I wouldn't have spent that year in college," which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!

My daughter is a freshman in college and my son is - well, our daughter and our son - is a sophomore in college. So they come home on selected weekends, they come home on vacations and they're home in the summer, although they have jobs.

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

I was a struggling college student like everyone else. I bicycled to class.

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.

The cost of a university education is risen faster than the rate of inflation for decades.

When we worked with the organization that represents students, they were unequivocal: They want debt-free college. And for many of those students, that has to include the total cost of attendance.

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap.

My parents didn't pay for college because we all got scholarships.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

The only reason I got into broadcasting was, I needed money to pay for my junior and senior years at college, and they hired me, those fools!

I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy.

The hardest thing about going to college should not be paying for it.

I think if you have to pay for your education, you worry very seriously about you're going to do when you've got your degree.

We build schools and give government loans and grants to college kids; for those of us who are parents, tuition will often be the last big subsidy we give the children we've raised.

I know what it's like to be in college and not have the budget to fully look the way I want to.

To go to USC without a scholarship is next to impossible.

There's no constitutional right for your parents to pay for college.

We spend to pretend that we're upper class. And when the dust clears - when bankruptcy hits or a family member bails us out of our stupidity - there's nothing left over. Nothing for the kids' college tuition, no investment to grow our wealth, no rainy-day fund if someone loses her job.

We didn't have money put away in the bank for a college fund; soccer was our lottery ticket, our gamble.

My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.

College today is an expensive option without a lot of economies of scale, right, when you go and live at a college. So you have a system that's increasing its cost base by probably five percent a year.