University Quotes

At 16, I dropped out of school and spent five years working as a bicycle mechanic and volunteering in a Trauma Centre before ultimately deciding to go to university.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

My family have been wool merchants since the 19th century. My first job, aged 18, was buying fabric from my father to produce and sell ties. But I was also at university in Milan.

My mother really wanted me to go to school and to university, but I was adamant that I wanted to be a football player.

When I turned 17, I created a website for the students at my University. It enabled students to share lectures and discuss exams, and became popular very quickly.

I went to college at University of Tennessee.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.

After university, I was working as a stylist in the Paris theatres when I had a flash of inspiration. I made necklaces from the bikinis designed for the cabaret performers of Folies Bergeres. I was so happy with them that it was only then that I sought out formal training in jewelry.

Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.

I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was a director.

New York, for me, is university.

I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.

I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.

My family are quite academic, and I was set to study economics and politics at university.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just east of London.

I'm on the board of trustees at Boston University. I'm on the board of trustees at Jewish Family Services.

After I finished university, I was gigging as a comedian in London as well as temping for Morgan Stanley during the day.

I played my first ever Test in Kingston in 1990. I'd just graduated from Durham University and there I was, at Sabina Park, playing Test cricket.

The thing is, when I quit university, I knew it was do-or-die when it came to making music.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

I have a U.P. connection as my mother had graduated from the Aligarh Muslim University.

The first game I played against the University of Miami, I was very nervous - eyes wide open.

I finished my university, was part of NSD, and did full length plays on stages.

I went to drama school at New York University.