student quotes

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

— Og Mandino

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

— Robert Redford

“Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.”

— Erno Rubik

“To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ”

— George Washington Bush

“My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. ”

— Jim Carrey

“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”

— Warren Buffett

“My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.”

— Paul McCartney

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

— Barack Obama

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

— Barack Obama

“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”

— Milton Friedman

“When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.”

— Bill Cosby

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

— Carl Sagan

“I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.”

— Carl Sagan

“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.”

— Donald Trump

“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

student quotes

“Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.”

“Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.”

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.”

“Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.”

“To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States. ”

“My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. ”

“And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that. ”

“The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.”

“My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.”

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.”

“To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.”

“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”

“When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.”

“I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.”

“I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.”

“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.”

“Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.”