Glenn Ligon

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother called around and found a school that was willing to give both me and my brother scholarship money. It's a classic story about black parents wanting more for their kids than they had for themselves.

American Artist

Salma Hayek

My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.

Mexican Actress

Victoria Jackson

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.

American Comedian

Shannon Lee

We preserve the legacy of my father through an education approach. We award scholarships. We do classes at schools about my father's philosophy and life.

American Actress

Tim Tebow

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.

American Baseball Player

Henry David Thoreau

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

American Author

Ashton Eaton

I wouldn't have gone to a Division I school if I didn't have scholarship help. We couldn't afford it.

American Athlete

James E. Rogers

Is there any more important problem than our lack of need-based scholarships? I think not.

American Educator

Viggo Mortensen

Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.

American Actor

Ellen Wilkinson

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

English Politician

Scholarship as money doesn't mean you repay it like a loan—it's a gift to support education.

Financial Aid

Often, scholarships are awarded for academic or extracurricular achievements, not financial need.

Merit-based

Scholarships are usually competitive; many apply, but few are chosen.

Competitive

When someone speaks about scholarship in a subject, they admire deep understanding.

Academic Praise

Achieving scholarship often means long-term dedication to a subject or field.

Personal Dedication

Scholarship implies a depth of knowledge beyond high grades; it’s about profound understanding.

Not Just Grades

 most of his friends and family were dead. He got involved in different pursuits. He helped out the war orphans. But he had a long-lasting interest in the science of prejudice, and so when a prestigious British scholarship on stereotypes opened up, he applied for it, and he won it, and then he began this amazing career.

Paul Bloom: Can...

 scholarship to what was my dream school then I met Sofia and that's where the dream school lost out to the dream girl I was worried that we'd never make it to Iceland I thought this is too good to be real this is not a cave it's a lava tube this was created by a river of flowing lava melts down deep enough to where

Iceland's Volcanic World...

 The doorbell rang and it was a trick-or-treater dressed as my character. It was so cool. Now my grandparents are no longer living, so to honor them, I started a scholarship at the Worcester Art Museum for kids who are in difficult situations but whose caretakers can't afford the classes.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka:...

 one of the oldest churches in the world. Now, this tradition has an enormous amount of scholarship and learning, and Yared had to study and study and study and study, and one day he was studying under a tree, when three birds came to him. One by one, these birds became his teachers.

Meklit Hadero: The...

 Yeah. All right, now put your hands down. Don't be no hero. Put your hands down. Okay? All right. Now. Cool. Good. I want you to run all that financial aid. Yeah, sucka, put the scholarships in the bag, yeah, yeah. Put the scholarships in the bag. Yeah, you too, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Poetic Stickup: Put the...

 taking away the stigma of poverty and hunger for some students but increasing achievement in attendance for many others. And in Memphis, the university is recruiting local, passionate high school students and giving them scholarships to go teach in the inner city

The "opportunity gap" in...

 whose scholarship had been funded by their work. Now, instead of focusing on the monotonous process of making calls, they were absorbed in a meaningful purpose of helping to fund tuition. So think about the people who would be worse off if your job didn't exist.

Adam Grant: How to stop...

 tuition scholarship I was able to play the staples of the orchestral and chamber music repertoire with world-renowned conductors and musicians just about every week I even had the opportunity to travel the world and play in the best concert halls throughout to

Why I say: Play On,...

 and I couldn't come without the support of the village, because I needed to raise money to buy the air ticket. I got a scholarship but I needed to get myself here. But I needed the support of the village, and here again, when the men heard,

Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl...

 to be able to support them. She's highly athletic. One of the things that happens is that she applies for a scholarship. Full scholarship. She gets it. Her dream of going to school, her wish of being educated, is finally here.