Andover Quotes

#1. At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school.

William Standish Knowles

#2. LOU SANDERS WAS on his way to joining the infantilized and catatonic denizens belted into the wheelchairs of a North Andover nursing home

Atul Gawande

#3. The military was providing him (George H.W. Bush) with an education that was not available at Andover or Yale.

George W. Bush

#4. He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application

H.W. Brands

#5. My first challenge was explaining Andover to my friends in Texas. In those days, most Texans who went away to high school had discipline problems. When I told a friend that I was headed to a boarding school in Massachusetts, he had only one question: Bush, what did you do wrong?

George W. Bush

#6. Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Olivia Wilde

#7. One of George H. W. Bush's early teachers at Andover wrote, At the moment he is intellectually immature for his powers of reasoning are not entirely developed.

H.W. Brands

#8. I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

H. G. Bissinger

#9. Are people so unhappy when they love?"
"Yes, Christine, when they love and are not sure of being loved.

Gaston Leroux

#10. I recall his somber eyes during that last, private conversation. His eyes and his words, far too wise for a boy of ten: only time will tell, Lia.
In the end, I suppose it will.

Michelle Zink

#11. I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

Sharon Van Etten

#12. It's all background experience and listening and exposure. That's why it's so important for people today and during any time to expose your children to lots of different kinds of things.

Al Jarreau

#13. The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

John Grogan

#14. If the dream is big enough, the facts don't count.

Cynthia Stewart-Copier

#15. There is a 3rd point of view on the gun control issue
those who I refer to as THE VICTIMS
but they remain strangely silent ...

Bill Hicks

#16. Freedom from a tyrant is easy, but freedom from societal conformity is difficult.

Debasish Mridha