Freeman Hrabowski Quotes

#1. I guarantee the people who study are going to be successful. Nothing can replace hard work.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#2. You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.

Meryl Streep

#3. There is something exciting about being in an environment in which it's really cool to be smart.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#4. Mann
There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
DRAIN energy.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#5. There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

Alice Sebold

#6. Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth.

Paul Harding

#7. Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.

Georgette Heyer

#8. I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#9. Stand-up is my foundation. That's where it started at. And I love it because it's personal. It's mine. It's all me. It's my experience in life.

Tracy Morgan

#10. I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#11. Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#12. If I could out run the Angel of Death I'd probably die from lack of breath!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#13. I'm an organism of the earth, a Taurus. I was never born of air, of water, or of fire. I'm a creature of gravity and I could feel the ground whisper. The same thing happens to me in old hotels when I'm staying on the twenty-second floor. I open a window and want to fling myself out.

Sue Grafton

#14. Speak up. You have to project! If people can't hear you, it doesn't matter what you say.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#15. In life sciences, we find a reasonable balance between men and women. In engineering and computer science, we have a major problem. A very small percentage of women will be in computer science.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#16. When you give of yourself, it's draining.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#17. My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#18. On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.

Tracy Kidder

#19. You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.

Nick Nolte

#20. He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

Larry McMurtry

#21. No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.

Herbert Spencer

#22. I was fortunate to grow up in a middle-class home with two hardworking parents who enjoyed both reading and mathematics.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#23. You poke at evil with a stick," Valerie had said, offering chilling advice they'd never forget. "Never use your fingers.

Gregg Olsen

#24. It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#25. It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#26. What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#27. Live High, Live Mighty, Live Righteously

Jason Mraz

#28. Rich kids work hard. Most black kids aren't working hard enough.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#29. I tried to get a job as a TV cameraman and they basically told me, 'You're mad, everyone wants these jobs - and if you go to England, you're doubly mad.' But I worked in abattoirs for 10 months to earn my money, then left for London. I didn't even know what a director did.

Martin Campbell

#30. Most people don't realize that it's not just minorities who don't do well in science and engineering - quite frankly, you're talking about Americans.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#31. Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

Bill Joy