Universities Quotes

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Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

- David Brooks

Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.

- Tom Hayden

This Core Lab building will be the catalyst for attracting new biotech jobs to the area and will serve as the home to a great collaboration of scientific study that will combine the intellectual power of North Carolina`s incredible universities and scientists from private enterprise, working together to perhaps discover breakthroughs in health, nutrition and wellness that have the potential to change the world. We are here to push back the frontiers of science.

- David Murdock Jr.

There are several colleges and universities around the country that offer motorsports programs like ours, but to my knowledge, we are the first to offer a motorsports course online,

- Ken Williams

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

- Phyllis Schlafly

Declining overseas admissions costs us not only much needed revenues for colleges and universities, but much more importantly, we lose the best opportunity we have to introduce foreign students to all that America has to offer the world.

- Richard Lugar

The young actors coming out of the Universities are well trained.

- Tony Randall

Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days.

- Tony Randall

What public universities need to do is be the sources of access, hope and opportunity for young people in the state.

- Doug Bradley

When all factors were weighed, it was collectively decided that playing next year`s game versus Miami on Labor Day night was in the best interest of all parties concerned. Miami never had the opportunity to host the game on that day and the viewership and exposure for the ACC and both universities from our game 10 days ago was exceptional.

- David Hart

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

- Edward Albee

Our state is one of the fastest growing and the most naturally diverse in the United States, ... Our mountains and beaches bring the visitors, and our universities, technology and industries draw the residents. Without clean air, the innovation and natural beauty are ruined.

- Roy Cooper

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

- Jim Harrison

He just loves universities and is enthusiastic about what we do with our students and our faculty, ... He beams every time a student wins an award or a faculty member has a significant publication or research grant or teaching award. In my way of thinking, he represents the best in American higher education.

- John Peters

We spent a lot of time building it. A lot of other universities purchased the software.

- Peter Briggs

I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.

- Thomas Perry

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

- Oriana Fallaci

Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.

- William Kunstler

The principal problem that universities face is money, ... This is expensive technology to deploy.

- Paul Morris

Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.

- Alan Christensen

If we look at the fact, we shall find that the great inventions of the age are not, with us at least, always produced in universities.

- Alan Curry

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

- Alan Gummerson

I believe that our office has clearly been the leader in building coalitions, in getting other universities across the contrary to interact more effectively with the government and particularly the Congress.

- Alan Gummerson

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

- Alan Gummerson

The Science Coalition, which grew out of an initial concept at Harvard and at MIT, has now grown to an informal group of about 60 research universities.

- Alan Gummerson

I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I`m used to working with.

- Alana Erickson

Many of the mainstream agricultural scientists, especially at the agricultural schools, but at all of our major universities, are tied into all sorts of contractual relationships and consulting relationships with the life science companies.

- Ali Rahnema

Years ago when you?d go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be.

- Allan Milbradt

Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments.

- Amanda Abel

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

- Amber Bacon

The interesting thing about Oberlin College as it differs from other more urban schools or universities is that it is a walking campus.

- Amber Harris

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education.

- Amir Hamid

America has a strategic interest in continuing to welcome international students at our colleges, universities, and high schools. Attracting the world`s top scientific scholars helps to keep our economy competitive.

- Amir Salem

I can`t understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It`s like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

- Amy Holman

Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.

- Amy Sowash

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

- Andi Burr

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we`re doing it, is teach and learn.

- Andreas Gross

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

- Andrew Jarvis

Tuition fees are the biggest change British universities have had in years,

- Angela Cummings

Tuition fees are the biggest change British universities have had in years. Before they were importers, but now with the tuition fees and given the exchange rates, the cost of studying here is not much more than staying at home.

- Angela Cummings

Very few universities anywhere can say that they affected the lives of 8,000 people in 20 years,

- Anoosh Manzoori

This tragic event has impacted thousands of lives in the Gulf Coast region, and perhaps dozens of our member colleges and universities have suffered extensive physical damage to facilities ... (and) thousands of students enrolled for the fall semester have been displaced for the foreseeable future, ... We have already been in touch with federal policy-makers to ensure that they are aware of the acute needs of colleges and universities in the region, and have identified policy changes that may be needed to help students and institutions cope with this unprecedented disaster.

- Anthony Stasio

We, as the leaders of the universities, the colleges and technical institutions, have an important role to play in making this a reality.

- Arnold Settelmeyer

I think it`s not just the universities. It`s the executives in the boardroom.

- Ashley Gronewoller

There are so many great universities in North Carolina, ... so just to be nominated was a accomplishment for me and my family.

- Barbara Collins

Our location is centrally located in Montcalm County near cities and several universities, and that also tends to attract physicians and their families.

- Barbara Jensen

Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?

- Peter Kropotkin

Of course there`s a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don`t take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

- Abbott Lawrence Lowell