Delayed Education Quotes

You can go to college when you are 30 or 40.

I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements, and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, 'Law school will always be there.' I was in no hurry to get right into that.

I didn't go to university straight after school. I went at night.

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. . . I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

I went to school four years later than most people because I was a teen father, hustled on the streets, worked, lived on welfare and the like, and didn't get to college until almost 21. That's when I officially got licensed and ordained, right after that.

I was schooled at home, then didn't go to university because I married when I was 17. I didn't go into work until late in my life.

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.

There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for me if I don't go yet.