100 Quotes About College

College is the most exciting time in our lives, but it can also be one of the most stressful. Between new classes, studying, and social life, there’s a lot to handle. Luckily, with the right attitude and attitude quotes, you can thrive in college no matter what challenges come your way.

I only want to write. And there's no college for...
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life. Dodie Smith
Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And...
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Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you. John Green
College is the best time of your life. When else...
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College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night? David Wood
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I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while–just once in a while–there was at least some polite little perfunctory implication that knowledge should lead to wisdom, and that if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time! But there never is! You never even hear any hints dropped on a campus that wisdom is supposed to be the goal of knowledge. You hardly ever even hear the word 'wisdom' mentioned! . J.d. Salinger
Self-education is lifelong curiosity.
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Self-education is lifelong curiosity. Lailah Gifty Akita
I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving...
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I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life. Chelsea M. Cameron
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I think back to what Landon said about heartbreak, that if you don’t love the person, they can’t break your heart. Hardin repeatedly breaks my heart, even when I don’t think there are any more pieces to break. And I love him. I love Hardin. Anna Todd
GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything. Ivy...
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GrayG: I feel like I can tell you anything. Ivy Mac: You can. That's what friends do. Gray G: I've never been friends with a girl before. Ivy Mac: I'm honored to be your first. Kristen Callihan
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do...
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Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons!...
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My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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I began my studies with eagerness. Before me I saw a new world opening in beauty and light, and I felt within me the capacity to know all things. In the wonderland of Mind I should be as free as another [with sight and hearing]. Its people, scenery, manners, joys, and tragedies should be living tangible interpreters of the real world. The lecture halls seemed filled with the spirit of the great and wise, and I thought the professors were the embodiment of wisdom.. But I soon discovered that college was not quite the romantic lyceum I had imagined. Many of the dreams that had delighted my young inexperience became beautifully less and "faded into the light of common day." Gradually I began to find that there were disadvantages in going to college. The one I felt and still feel most is lack of time. I used to have time to think, to reflect, my mind and I. We would sit together of an evening and listen to the inner melodies of the spirit, which one hears only in leisure moments when the words of some loved poet touch a deep, sweet chord in the soul that until then had been silent. But in college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures — solitude, books and imagination — outside with the whispering pines. I suppose I ought to find some comfort in the thought that I am laying up treasures for future enjoyment, but I am improvident enough to prefer present joy to hoarding riches against a rainy day. Helen Keller
Some people get an education without going to college. The...
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Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. Mark Twain
I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges...
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I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that. Malcolm X
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There are times when I long to sweep away half the things I am expected to learn; for the overtaxed mind cannot enjoy the treasure it has secured at the greatest cost.. When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use. At the present time my mind is so full of heterogeneous matter that I almost despair of ever being able to put it in order. Whenever I enter the region of my mind I feel like the proverbial bull in the china shop. A thousand odds and ends of knowledge come crashing about my head like hailstones, and when I try to escape them, theme goblins and college nixies of all sorts pursue me, until I wish — oh, may I be forgiven the wicked wish! — that I might smash the idols I came to worship. Helen Keller
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In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system! Spider Robinson
I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates...
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I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck. J.d. Salinger
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The habit of looking at life as a social relation – an affair of society – did no good. It cultivated a weakness which needed no cultivation. If it had helped to make men of the world, or give the manners and instincts of any profession – such as temper, patience, courtesy, or a faculty of profiting by the social defects of opponents – it would have been education better worth having than mathematics or languages; but so far as it helped to make anything, it helped only to make the college standard permanent through life. Henry Adams
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I’d compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding. Randy Pausch
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I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics. Henry David Thoreau
Most people who were educated have become the
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Most people who were educated have become the "problems" instead of problem solvers. Israelmore Ayivor
I will miss younot because you taught me, not because...
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I will miss younot because you taught me, not because you helped me on all steps of education;but only becauseyou made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer. Hasil Paudyal
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You have no idea how many men are spoiled by what is called education. For the most part, colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. If Shakespeare had graduated at Oxford, he might have been a quibbling attorney, or a hypocritical parson. Robert G. Ingersoll
The difference between a good and a poor student is...
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The difference between a good and a poor student is result ETC Wanyanwu
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Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences. Kilroy J. Oldster
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As long as high schools strive to list the number of Ivy League schools their graduates attend and teachers pile on work without being trained to identify stress-related symptoms, I fear for our children’s health. I am not mollified by the alums of my daughter’s school who return to tell everyone that the rigor of high school prepared them for college, making their first year easier than they’d anticipated. If they make it that far. Candy Schulman
They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college...
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They [students] had two common, strongly held expectations: the college should exhibit the behavior it expected from students and hold true to its espoused values. Gregory S. Prince
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And the final product of our training must be neither a psychologist nor a brick mason, but a man. And to make men, we must have ideals, broad, pure, and inspiring ends of living, not sordid money-getting... The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not fame. W.E.B. Du Bois
Education leads to intellectual life.
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Education leads to intellectual life. Lailah Gifty Akita
If you want to be a graduate student, you have...
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If you want to be a graduate student, you have to fall in love with reading. Lailah Gifty Akita
I had an absurd desire to go down to her...
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I had an absurd desire to go down to her and make sure she was all right, and stay with her until dawn. I also had a fierce wish to bludgeon the two frat boys to death with a shovel. Molly Ringle
Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much...
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Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months–they're like dog months. Rainbow Rowell
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...Come on let’s see the degree.” Katherine unrolled her scroll displaying a long declaration in Latin affixed with a red seal proclaiming her a Master of Art. “Imagine working for years to obtain a piece of paper we can hardly read ” Katherine joked. “And to officially declare you have talent ” Suzy returned. E.a. Bucchianeri
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.
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The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. John Green
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I wondered ..if meeting people with creativity and passion when you were at an impressionable enough age actually kind of ruined you for life among normal people. For a long time, I'd searched the world, thinking I could start up new friendships like the ones I'd had before. But I never met people like that again. I know people will think that's what everyone believes about their college friends, but it's true. Maybe we're like flowers that open up at that brief moment in our lives, and after that, we close up again, one by one. Jennifer Finney Boylan
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When colleges, both within the Hudson Valley and throughout the country, encouraged women to do little beyond attaining their Mrs. degree in Husbandry, Annandale offered rigorous and prestigious degrees irrespective of gender. Thomm Quackenbush
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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them. L. Frank Baum
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Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump. Joyce Rachelle
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I am kind of majoring in bull shitting. Kate Voegele
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WRITERS ARE "SPIRITIAL VENTRILOQUIST" WHO HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE PAPER TALK! Qwana ReynoldsFrasier
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THE BROKEN HEART STILL HAS HEART BEATS. THOUGH YOU MAY FEEL LIKE DEATH, YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK! Qwana ReynoldsFrasier
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Do not dwell on the past. Focus on the precious moments and gracious future. Lailah Gifty Akita
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And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves. Nina Lacour
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Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close. Aimee Bender
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It was a time before Facebook and Instagram and texting. I imagine it must be easier now, for college students. Home must not feel so far away anymore. But how do you cut the apron strings if the strings are virtual? Kirstie Collins Brote
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Our first kiss was there on the bridge in the woods. How do you describe a first kiss? It is like trying to hold water in your hands. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that compares kissing to drinking salted water. “You drink, and your thirst increases, ” it says. Time, I’m sure, passed by, but we remained unavailable for comment. Kirstie Collins Brote
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People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker! Mary Gordon
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Young women are not putting themselves in danger. The people around them are doing the real damage. Who? you might wonder. The abstinence teacher who tells her students that they'll go to jail if they have premarital sex. The well-founded organizarion that tells girls on college campuses that they should be looking for a husband, not taking women's studies classes. The judge who rules against a rape survivor because she didn't meet whatevel standard for a victim he had in mind. The legislator who pushes a bill to limit young women's access to abortion because he doesn't think they're smart enough to make their own decisions. These are the people who are making the world a worse place, and a more dangerous one, at that, for girls and young women. We're just doing our best to live in it. Jessica Valenti
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I had a dream. In the dream someone was critical of my newest novel The Snail's Castle. I said, "don't worry about it. If you don't like it, just throw it out the window." I awoke, grinning, with a wonderful feeling of freedom. Mark Gordon
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What are the purposes of examinations anyhow? Are they to increase our educational attainment? Or are they instruments used to bring suffering and humiliation and deep hurt to a person who is trying so hard to succeed? Virginia M. Axline
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The search for wisdom is like a search for gold. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey Lailah Gifty Akita
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A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be. Ryan Lilly
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I hate reading poems–school made me hate them. I’d spend hours interpreting one, just to read the memorandum and realize I’d be fucked during exams. I remember making a little asterisk next to every question I struggled with, and at the end of the paper, I’d realize I was looking at the fucking Milky Way. Danielle Esplin
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You ought to endure and complete your own race of life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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For this very short time in your life, and possibly never again, you will be given a very unique gift: a supremely rich environment with ample time, space, safety and people to explore whatever interests you intensely, to push yourself, to make mistakes and recover from them, and to live as deeply as you'd like in the hope of finding yourself or, at least, the beginnings of yourself. Such an opportunity may never present itself again. So, embrace it and.. Carpe College!. Michael Metzler
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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Oscar Wilde
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The most effective learning takes place in the classroom, where you can easily raise your hand, engage in spontaneous discussions with classmates and faculty, turn to the person next to you to ask for clarification, or approach the professor after class or during office hours to ask questions or exchange viewpoints in a way that practically guarantees an instant response and is not constrained by typing, software interfaces, or waiting for a response. Ian Lamont
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Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'". Elizabeth F. Barkley
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I don't think college is something you should tough out. Kevin Roose
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I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you, ” and I was now living that mantra. Kimberly Novosel
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There are some things you can’t learn at any university, except for one, the University of Life... the only college where everyone is a permanent student. E.a. Bucchianeri
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Creation is scientific. Lailah Gifty Akita
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Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends. Chuck Palahniuk
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Tall, dark, and hot leaned against a pillar, watching me as I took my place in line. Tousled dark hair went every which way on his head. His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to have sex at any moment. Maybe even with me. Veronica Wolff
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And then he winked. Jeez, I thought my heart would explode on the spot. The last time a guy winked at me was years ago, and that’d been a creepy mall Santa. Veronica Wolff
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Surely there was at least one other girl on campus not sporting a French pedicure (do girls really think we’re fooled by the little white lines painted across their toenails?), who had some black in her wardrobe, and actually thought about things. You know, someone who knew the word French could imply more than just a way to kiss. Veronica Wolff
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In this neighbourhood people don't venture out after dark. It's not safe for them. Only the terminally stupid and the criminally motivated come out at this hour. J.J. Bonds
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...make sure if you're working hard at something it's in a subject you actually want to remember something about ten years later. Felicia Day
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But the compulsive overachievement of today's elite college students - the sense that they need to keep running as fast as they can - is not the only thing that keeps them from forming the deeper relationships that might relieve their anguish. Something more insidious is operating, too: a resistance to vulnerability, a fear of looking like the only one who isn't capable of handling the pressure. These are young people who have always succeeded at everything, in part by projecting the confidence that they always will. Now, as they get to college, the stakes are higher and the competition fiercer. Everybody thinks that they are the only one who's suffering, so nobody says anything, so everybody suffers. Everyone feels like a fraud; everybody thinks that everybody else is smarter than they are. William Deresiewicz
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The image of him shifted with the violent frenzy of leaves. He was there and he wasn’t, as the leaves whipped and the lightning fell away in a slow strobe effect across the expanse of sky. How he had gotten up there, I had no idea, but he had been there. Crouched in the tree in the middle of the courtyard, he watched me intently through the open window. Gwenn Wright
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You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money. Gwenn Wright
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I tried to lose myself in school and friends as best as I was able, trying to put Dorian's world out of my mind. But that was pretty much impossible with Clarrisa's constant, homicidally cheerful presence, which was, I supposed, something like making friends with a live grenade. V.M. Black
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College = A place where you spend a ton of money for a piece of paper that says you're qualified. Korey Miracle
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I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now. Jeremy Camp
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You can't change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let's get to work! Damen Lopez
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He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. Rick Riordan
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She glared at me. I didn't care. One word was playing a loop in my heaad: mine. Kristen Callihan
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Lucia opened the door. "They say not to discuss politics and religion on the first Jennifer Lane
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Do I have to give you hair torture to get it out of y Jennifer Lane
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I listen closely to her breathing getting slower, deeper until her hand settles over my heart, only beating for her. – Duke Stephanie Witter
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Therapy can’t erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. – Duke Stephanie Witter
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It’s a matter of when I’ll stop fighting. – Duke Stephanie Witter
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At this very moment with my girl in my arms, I feel like there’s nothing I can’t do for her, for us. – Duke Stephanie Witter
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At least, for once I was there for her. I didn’t fail her. She wasn’t alone. – Duke Stephanie Witter
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There’s only so much a man can survive and as fucking weak as it sounds, I reached my limits when Skye disappeared. –Duke Stephanie Witter
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What a fucking charade. Happy. That shit isn’t in our cards. – Duke Stephanie Witter
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You know she needs you. Think for a minute instead of playing the wounded ego card.’’ – Derek Stephanie Witter
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It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. – Skye Stephanie Witter
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I love you to insanity. I'm not even sure if it's a good thing.'' – Duke Stephanie Witter
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I couldn’t help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel Victoria H. Smith
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I don’t want us to be ashamed anymore (we all were crying by this point) of being pregnant or gay or poor or having a crackhead dad! I want us to be fucking proud of ourselves. (...) So we have to be proud and always remember who we are and when we make it to college, who we were. Isabel Quintero
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A college provides a means of accrediting and laundering one’s existence, so that what was may be forgotten under the weight of something far more mundane. Thomm Quackenbush
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For the first time he considers the full emotional dimensions of the day. His life is changing but his parent’s lives are changing too. Like a habitat, abruptly deprived of a major species, the household will be wrenched into realignment by his departure. Like all young people, he has no idea who his parents really are. For 18 years he has experienced their existence only in so far as it is related to his own needs. Suddenly his mind is full of questions. What do they talk about when he's not around? What secrets do they hold from each other? What aspirations have been left to languish? What private grievances held in check by the shared project of child rearing will now in his absence, lurch into the light?. Justin Cronin
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It’s YOUR journey. Ask yourself who you are, where you want to go, and how you’d like to get there. Graciously accept advice from everyone, but don’t look left and right and wonder why you’re not taking the path of your peers. Enjoy the path you’re on and make the most of it. Carpe College! Michael Metzler
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High school and college students like to torture their bodies. They pull countless all-nighters, continually skip breakfast, eat nothing but ramen noodles for dinner, find creative new ways to guzzle alcohol, transform into couch potatoes, and gain 15 pounds at the freshman dinner buffet. At least, that's the stereotype. Stefanie Weisman
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Some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor giving me a bad grade or someone not sitting next to me in the cafeteria. This reflects that fact that I am not ready for college, or I shouldn't be in this college at all. Shankar Vedantam
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I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together. Ronald Reagan
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To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. Michelle Richmond
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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do–and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they've taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can't understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don't have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself. Ray Bradbury
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You look incredible, Kavanagh, ” Quinn whispered close to my ear. “Are you trying to kill me?”“ Ssshhh, ” I hissed. “They’re going to hear you.”“ I can’t tell my date she’s beautiful?” I turned my head. “No. No, you can’t. Laura Anderson Kurk