Freshmen Year Quotes

#1. Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

Gene Cernan

#2. Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them.

Terry Pratchett

#3. My advice to the tea party freshmen: Slow the galloping horses to a trot. Big government was built over decades; it can't be dismantled in a year, especially when Democrats control the White House.

Ari Fleischer

#4. But children die how they have been living-with hope. They don't what is happening, so they expect nothing, they don't ask you to hold their hand-but you end up needing them to hold yours.

Tea Obreht

#5. I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey ... ' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.'

Henry Louis Gates

#6. I like you," he said. He smiled, his eyes twinkling. "You're the best person I've met all year.

Audrey Bell

#7. I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.

Chris Baio

#8. The Columbian Orator.

Frederick Douglass

#9. Mamata Banerjee is just a casual worker, just like a commoner.

Mamata Banerjee

#10. I can't go with you and stay where I am.

Garth Brooks

#11. Those who remain content easily remain small: small are their joys, small are their ecstasies, small are their silences, small is their being. But there is no need! This smallness is your own imposition upon your freedom, upon your unlimited possibilities, upon your unlimited potential.

Rajneesh

#12. Anger dulls the sharpness of mind, hardens the softness of feelings, and replaces the sweetness of the world with bitterness.

Debasish Mridha

#13. When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore De Balzac

#14. When they brag about god, I just hear jingling gold coins.

Toba Beta

#15. The pure power of a life can manifest as beatitude, or as an unspeakable, sheer violence ...

Jane Bennett

#16. our views of the natural are shaped by our ideas of the supernatural.

Jonathan Sacks

#17. We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not specific to people who live in Africa or Latin America or Asia. And equally, we are capable of regaining ourselves.

Ishmael Beah