#scholar

I won a scholarship with the Brixton School of Building. I screwed around, not putting in a proper attendance. ↗

— Ronald Biggs

#attendance #building #i #proper #putting

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars. ↗

— Robert Burton

#make #mayors #officers #scholars #year

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit. ↗

— Jung Chang

#awarded #began #china #died #first

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#boy #clever #form #head #i

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar. ↗

— Maya Lin

#constitutions #draft #fairly #father #first

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry. ↗

— Abbott L. Lowell

#approaches #discover #every #fragment #larger

They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today. ↗

— Debbie Meyer

#available #college #done #had #i

I didn't get an athletics scholarship at a major school. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#get #i #major #scholarship #school

I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship. ↗

— Edwin Moses

#go #got #i #medical #medical school