Transitioning To College Quotes

1. "In 1994, the College Board changed the test's name from Scholastic Aptitude Test to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Now according to the College Board, the letters don't stand for anything anymore. Perhaps that itself is symbolic."
Author: Alexandra Robbins

2. "I went to college to play football, not to study it."
Author: Art Donovan

3. "If first love is always young, every love thereafter is like the old woman in the rocking chair: enfeebled by experience and swaying to a memory. But this is perhaps true only of noble souls; with all the rest, every love feels original: they leave their pre-teen playmate to marry their high school sweetheart, only to refresh their bed at college enrollment. Every new season of life obliges a new excitement. The modern lover has internalized the essence of comedy: that happy endings always round off at the commencement of the relationship. Love becomes a fading echo. Without a right side to cast our nets over, we drag them through thinned, polluted seas, hungering for the succulence of perpetual novelty and surviving off of chunks from driftbones. When our life partner, passion, finally leaves us, comes the realization: that we should have held on the first time."
Author: Bauvard

4. "My dad is quite possibly the biggest Giants fan in the world. I believe he wore a Phil Simms jersey to my high school and college graduations."
Author: Bobby Moynihan

5. "I sang a lot in college - I was in a choral group in college. But, then, when I moved to New York, I really just concentrated on acting."
Author: Callie Thorne

6. "For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that."
Author: Chaz Bono

7. "I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think."
Author: Dan Marino

8. "Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated."
Author: Dan Pearce

9. "I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world."
Author: Donna Rice

10. "Kevin", his father began, "I've been thinking about it – I guess I was kind of carried away. It's just that I've waited so long for my old school to make it to the Regionals... I suppose I was living it vicariously through you. Keith says you're not going to fail, after all. Is that right?""Looks like I'll make it. I know it's hard to believe...""Yes, it is. I was hoping you could get a football scholarship, you know. Something to waive the entrance requirements, because I don't know what college would take you-""Yeah. Thanks a lot Dad," Kevin said sarcastically. He already knew what his father thought of him and didn't need to be reminded yet again."Oh, come on. You know perfectly well that you're too stupid to-""That's not what my boyfriend says. Oh, by the way, Dad – I'm a faggot. Did I mention that?""... Kevin – get your stuff, and get out.""Gladly."
Author: Failte

11. "Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck."
Author: Gary Shteyngart

12. "However close you can be to a vegan diet and further from the mean American diet, the better you are for the planet." quoted by Gidon Eshel (Bard College geographer)"
Author: James E. McWilliams

13. "College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus."
Author: Jerry Kramer

14. "Let me say no danger and no hardship ever makes me wish to get back to that college life again."
Author: Joshua Chamberlain

15. "I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things."
Author: Joy Covey

16. "My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run."
Author: Kevin Plank

17. "When I was a kid, 'Scooby Doo' was, hands down, my favorite cartoon. Even when I was older, when I was in college studying and I needed to tune out for a while, I'd watch 'Scooby Doo.'"
Author: Linda Cardellini

18. "My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
Author: Maya Angelou

19. "I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social."
Author: Miles Teller

20. "I attended college in Los Angeles and wore black pumps to work every day."
Author: Ree Drummond

21. "I went to my first college to play soccer."
Author: Sean Durkin

22. "I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore."
Author: Sophie Kinsella

23. "He had no college dreams and hence no proximity to the challenge of new faces and ideas."
Author: Steve Martin

24. "I was a psych major in college and I actually owned two white lab rats. I had to train them and I took them home so that's just kind of missing for me."
Author: Steven Yeun

25. "Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above both is character. It is true, of course, that a genius may, on certain lines, do more than a brave and manly fellow who is not a genius; and so, in sports, vast physical strength may overcome weakness, even though the puny body may have in it the heart of a lion. But, in the long run, in the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against that assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities, which we group together under the name of character; and if between any two contestants, even in college sport or in college work, the difference in character on the right side is as great as the difference of intellect or strength the other way, it is the character side that will win."
Author: Theodore Roosevelt

26. "I felt like that character in Flowers for Algernon. Not Charlie, the lady teacher from the college who realizes, 'I've got to stop dry-humping this mentally challenged guy!"
Author: Tina Fey

27. "The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room."
Author: Vivek Wadhwa

28. "I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."
Author: Woody Allen

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