#university

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

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126) ↗

— Ferrol Sams

#fraternity #greek #mercer #mercer-university #life

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. ↗

— Seth Low

#altogether #another #brotherhood #city #dependence

I believe it is important for the university to always remember its roots. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#believe #i #i believe #important #remember

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

I decided that the University of Sussex in Brighton was a good place for this work because it had a strong tradition in bacterial molecular genetics and an excellent reputation in biology. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#biology #brighton #decided #excellent #genetics

My parents were neither wealthy nor academic, but we lived comfortably and they were always extremely supportive of my academic efforts and aspirations, both at school and university. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#always #aspirations #both #comfortably #efforts

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#enough #everywhere #go #i #i think

We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#become #class #contractor #every #father

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#college #degree #got #i #kansas