Delaware State Quotes

#1. Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.

Michael N. Castle

#2. Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.

Michael N. Castle

#3. And the university's reputation will only continue to grow as stories like Elaine's are spread. Delaware State University's motto 'a past to honor, a future to insure,' couldn't be any more fitting for this transitional period you are going through.

Michael N. Castle

#4. This is a value-added college education if I have heard one described. And what is the most remarkable about Delaware State University graduates - is they just keeping giving back.

Michael N. Castle

#5. Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

Michael N. Castle

#6. When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.

Michael N. Castle

#7. Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.

Michael N. Castle

#8. Delaware State began as a school bent on service - teaching education, social services and nursing.

Michael N. Castle

#9. With the establishment of a presence in all three counties of Delaware, recruitment in and outside Delaware and throughout the world and new master's and doctoral programs, Delaware State University will continue to grow and attract even more qualified students.

Michael N. Castle

#10. Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.

Michael N. Castle

#11. Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation.

Michael N. Castle

#12. After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Michael N. Castle

#13. Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State.

Michael N. Castle

#14. Getting to where Delaware State is today was a challenge my friends - a challenge proudly met by the people of this community and the Delaware State family.

Michael N. Castle

#15. I could not agree more. The students of Delaware State often looked to the school as their chance, their hand up, their hope. And they gave their all.

Michael N. Castle

#16. Through the years you, the Delaware State family and your predecessors, have faced many challenges. You worked through them with fierce determination and good will, and you have made great progress.

Michael N. Castle

#17. By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

Michael N. Castle

#18. Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

Jack Markell

#19. Fools write books about madness being an elevated mental state or an alternative form of creativity. It's not, it's anguish.

Jonathan Kellerman

#20. My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington's troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave.

Paul Robeson

#21. Never know how much of a hurry you might be in later.

Peter Heller

#22. Chronicling future appeasing Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain's rise to Parliament from first-generation commercial interests rather than the aristocracy, the author diagnoses even then that he had no center outside himself.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#23. The Avant Gardener feeds flowers to his manure and charges prices he believes are not to be sniffed at

Dean Cavanagh

#24. I'm hosting a quiz show, but I never considered myself a game show host.

Maury Povich

#25. Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

James Lipton

#26. The cells and fibers of the brain must carry some kind of individual identification tags, presumably cytochemical in nature, by which they are distinguished one from another almost, in many regions, to the level of the single neurons.

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#27. May our twilights mix together
like breath and breathlessness.

Sanober Khan

#28. I saw your wife the other day and she is ugly. I know, but she sure can cook.

Jimmy Soul

#29. Approaching the state of Delaware, the dreamer is a small dog, dreaming impatiently of a past life, long forgotten, when he sailed tall ships across uncharted. The salt spray of the ocean stings my face.

Neil Gaiman

#30. The world is full of stupid people. That's why we have rules. But with enough intelligence, a person can be above the rules. She can make rules.

Daniel Nayeri

#31. Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out, and two when it is in.

John James Ingalls

#32. Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.

Ruth Ann Minner