#scholar

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fall #first #first time #get #girl

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud. ↗

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

#bottles #concrete #dealing #frogs #got

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#good #good writer #mankind #redeemer #scholar

I studied chemical engineering. I was a good student, but these were the hard times of the depression, my scholarship came to an end, and it was necessary to work to supplement the family income. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

#chemical #depression #end #engineering #family

I'm a reporter. I'm not a scholar. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#reporter #scholar

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. ↗

— Frederick II

#demonstrate #find #i #later #perfect

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#choose #could #i #mechanism #philosophy

The old man was peering intently at the shelves. 'I'll have to admit that he's a very competent scholar.' Isn't he just a librarian?' Garion asked, 'somebody who looks after books?' That's where all the rest of scholarship starts, Garion. All the books in the world won't help you if they're just piled up in a heap. ↗

— David Eddings

#librarians #libraries #library #scholar #scholarship

See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ... is the one fundamental treason which the scholar's mind must not allow is the bond uniting all the Oxford people in the last resort. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#falsification #honesty #integrity #lies #oxford