Quotes on Going To College

Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I went to college because I didn't have anywhere else to go and it was a fabulous hang. And while I was there I was exposed to this world that I didn't know was possible.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.