Not Studying Abroad Quotes & Sayings

Studying in countries like China isn't only about your prospects in the global marketplace. It's not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It's also about whether you can come together and work together with them to make our world stronger. It's about the friendships you make, the bonds of trust you establish and the image of America that you project to the rest of the world. — Michelle Obama

Children whose families take them to museums and zoos, who visit historic sites, who travel abroad, or who camp in remote areas accumulate huge chunks of background knowledge without even studying. For the impoverished child lacking the travel portfolio of affluence, the best way to accumulate background knowledge is by either reading or being read to. — Jim Trelease

Respondents had been so overwhelmed by their in-box they'd declared e-mail bankruptcy. — Susan Maushart

You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to. — Jackie French

Political science came into being as alchemy was being discredited, although history has since proved that alchemy had a better record. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

One of the things I had to really wrap my head around is I have no control over what people call me: advocate, activist, gay, Filipino, undocumented person, gay person with an Asian face and Latino name. — Jose Antonio Vargas

John Walker Lindh, a twenty-year-old American studying in Pakistan, was captured in Northern Afghanistan fighting for the Taliban. Experts call it the worst semester abroad program ever. — Jimmy Fallon

Damn you, Hamster! Stop making me think about him! Go to bed! — Elle Casey

How to know, oh how to know! All is relative ease and facility in orthodoxy, yet how can it be denied that good is in itself undeniable? Absolutes are the most uncertain of all formulations, while the uncertainties are the most real ... — Jack Vance

For the next nine months, Sylvia would report on campus trends, politics, tastes, style. It was an honor, but it was grueling. Sylvia was overworked. She had boyfriend problems. She longed for Europe. She broke her leg in a skiing accident. Her best friend, Marcia Brown, had gotten engaged and moved off campus - other girls were away on their junior year abroad. The whole campus seemed mired in some bleak haze- there were suicide attempts, abortions, disappearances, and hasty marriages. Sylvia coped with shopping binges in downtown Northhampton- sheer blouses, French pumps, red cashmere sweaters, white skirts, and tight black pullovers - clothes more suited to voguish amusements than studying. Everyone wanted to be one of Mademoiselle's guest editors, but Sylvia needed it - some shot of glamour to pull her out of the mud. — Elizabeth Winder

The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail. — Tahir Shah

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves. — Marilyn Monroe

The benefits of studying abroad are almost endless. — Michelle Obama

The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all. — Desi Arnaz

Two economists recently concluded, after studying the issue, that the entire concept of food miles is 'a profoundly flawed sustainability indicator'. Getting food from the farmer to the shop causes just 4 per cent of all its lifetime emissions. Ten times as much carbon is emitted in refrigerating British food as in air-freighting it from abroad, and fifty times as much is emitted by the customer travelling to the shops. — Matt Ridley

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there was a little bit of prejudice. — Maya Lin

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience. — Subhash Chandra

The beautiful thing about studying abroad is that you don't study very much. — Stephanie Wilson