Quotes about scholarships (16 Quotes)


    You adapt. And you learn to appreciate Hawaii even more. I'm excited for our kids. It's great for our program that a school offered three of our kids scholarships. That means we're headed in the right direction.

    We changed the names of our technical schools to colleges, we expanded the eligibility for HOPE scholarships for technical training, and we added some formula funding.

    Outside support is absolutely critical to our ability to provide scholarships for the many deserving students who want a quality education at this institution. We are grateful for the support and generosity of our sponsors.




    I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

    They could do any project dealing with a scientific process as long as it goes by Ohio standards. We want them to do their project to the best of their ability, whatever their ability is. Students can keep their projects and add on to it each year. Then they have the opportunity to move on to the state level and win scholarships.

    Those students not taking math and science classes are mostly minorityonce we get minority students into these programs they have the ability to go on to. Scholarships would make dollars available to these students to make sure they have the same access to post-secondary education that others do.

    They didn't have college scholarships for women. Had they done that at the time, I may have stayed on for another two Olympics, but the opportunities were not available to women that they have today.


    We raised almost 2 million dollars at the last golf tournament that can be used for minority scholarships and Junior Golf programs. The payoff for the work we do is so much more valuable than the work we actually do for it.

    America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study.

    The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

    We are very strong when you think about it like that. Just look at the seniors that are top-ranked in the country and the number of Division I scholarships that guys from West Tennessee had signed - that's your answer right there. Those are numbers that don't lie.

    Most kids started getting acceptance letters in January. Sam gave up some nice opportunities and some good scholarships. Some colleges even upped their offers trying to get him.

    When no other schools in the Southeastern Conference or the former Southwestern Conference would award them athletic scholarships, African Americans had been recruited by and playing for Texas Western since the 1950s.



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