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My favorite college experience was probably leaving college. -- Marshawn Lynch
I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path. -- Jodie Foster
Life changed at 40 for me, as predicted by my acting teacher when I was leaving college. I became more hirable and more interesting... I'm not sure why. -- Roger Bart
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. -- Anthony Trollope
Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard to be receptive to the moralistic scolding and patronizing encouragement offered endlessly by the allegedly well-meaning. -- Tom Shales
I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker. -- Rainbow Rowell
My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me. -- Sally Field
When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance. -- Oscar Niemeyer
I had too much respect for the game to leave it behind or to make it my second or third sport in college. -- Ryne Sandberg
When it comes to sending my children to college, I want the best education. It's the only thing I'm really leaving them - a good education. -- Sloan Wilson
Figuring out how to eat healthfully on your own without your parents' guidance is one of the hardest lessons you must learn when you leave home for college. -- Daphne Oz
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting. -- Jason Biggs
I went to Marion College for writing and I was kicked out of the writing school. I was asked to leave the writing program because I was corrupting the other students. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
I suggest that the introductory courses in science, at all levels from grade school through college, be radically revised. Leave the fundamentals, the so-called basics, aside for a while, and concentrate the attention of all students on the things that are not known. -- Lewis Thomas
In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone. -- Nancy Gibbs
Outside of my parents, it's my older sister, Ngum. She lives with me in Detroit and helps me with my day-to-day stuff. She's somebody I've always looked up to. When she was leaving high school and going to college, I wanted to follow in her footsteps. -- Ndamukong Suh
It's difficult because we tend to overrate the pain of failure. We fear it too much. That's research that emerges from psychology. We think it's going to be worse than it really is. And, I think, as we get a bit older, really after we leave school or college, we quickly stop experimenting. -- Tim Harford
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great way about learning about that different culture. So I grew up in the South, and went to college in the North, and found out that I learned about myself as a Southerner by leaving the South and going to the Northeast. -- Bruce Feiler
Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind? -- Abbi Glines

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