#university

Some of my finest memories are from my time at the University of Texas. ↗

— Roger Clemens

#memories #my time #some #texas #time

The people who run a university are far more qualified and intelligent in handling people than someone who inherited his money and used it to buy a pro team. ↗

— Hayden Fry

#far #handling #his #inherited #intelligent

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn't have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#any #child #college #dream #england

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#beyond #died #drama #father #i

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#country #course #ended #going #graduate

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university. ↗

— John Keegan

#been #educated #educated people #find #graduates

So you are going to become a part time student and strive to achieve that optimal marriage between the tough and demanding real world and the higher plains of theoretical thought. ↗

— Bryon

#melbourne-university #part-timers #marriage

In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. ↗

— Mary Wesley

#eighties #especially #fifties #friends #i

Early June, Providence, Rhode Island, the sun up for almost two hours already, lighting up the pale bay and the smokestacks of the Narragansett Electric factory, rising like the sun on the Brown University seal emblazoned on all the pennants and banners draped up over campus, a sun with a sagacious face, representing knowledge. But this sun--the one over Providence--was doing the metaphorical sun one better, because the founders of the university, in their Baptist pessimism, had chosen to depict the light of knowledge enshrouded by clouds, indicating that ignorance had not yet been dispelled from the human realm, whereas the actual sun was just now fighting its way through cloud cover, sending down splintered beams of light and giving hope to the squadrons of parents, who'd been soaked and frozen all weekend, that the unseasonable weather might not ruin the day's activities. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#marriage

The first big break was winning a scholarship to go to Cambridge University. I was very lucky, because my parents couldn't have afforded a university education for me. Without a scholarship I couldn't possibly have gone. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

#because #big #big break #break #cambridge