Trevor Nunn Quotes

When I went to college, I got an engineering degree and a full scholarship.

My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents.

I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours program at the University of Manchester in 1950, where the professors were E.R.H. Jones and M.G. Evans, and graduated in 1953, with the financial support of a Blackpool Education Committee Scholarship.

If this boy passes the examination, he will be admitted; and if the white students choose to withdraw, all of the income of the college will be devoted to his education.

Yale? I was at Yale on a scholarship.

I went to Cambridge University and was the first in my family to graduate.

Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.

I had a place at university to study theology and philosophy. I got the divinity prize at my school two years in a row. Probably because there were only 10 of us, but still.

I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University and then again was able to pursue my studies in the U.S. on a fellowship from the aforementioned fund.

I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Sure enough, it wasn't long until I got a call, telling me I had a scholarship there. It was the only scholarship offer I had and, believe me, I jumped at it.

I was cleaning out the pigsty at a farm in Wales, where my mother had rented a room, when the results of my final school exam were handed to me by the postman, along with the news that I had a state scholarship to Oxford. I had waited for this letter for so many weeks that I had abandoned hope, deciding that I had failed ignominiously.

I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.

If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.

Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

I paid for my own education by scholarship until I left university.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue - it's personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

My daughter is on academic scholarship at the University of Central Florida. I feel so blessed.

I'm proud of doing well at school and if there'd been any money I would have gone to college.

I went to uni, and I studied commerce on a scholarship, and that was crazy and wild in and of itself.

I just believe strongly that anybody who wants to pursue additional education after high school ought to be given that chance.

I want to go to college if I can. That's really important to me, and I really hope that I get that opportunity to do so.