Grinnell Quotes

#1. When I was a freshman in college I went to Grinnell College in Iowa. I brought my poems to my freshman humanities teacher whose name was Carol Parsinan, a wonderful teacher. And Carol did a really great thing for me. She taught me more than anyone.

Edward Hirsch

#2. For a time, Greeley seemed to be following the historic advice he had once given young Josiah Grinnell: "Go West, young man, go West.

Harold Holzer

#3. When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

Peter Coyote

#4. Grinnell College MIT McGill University Georgia Institute of Technology

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.

Peter Coyote

#6. Their humanity has been forgotten, Grinnell said of the predominant way most outsiders looked at Indians - as either savages or victims.

Timothy Egan

#7. I believe forgiveness is possible for everybody, for everything, but I'm a Buddhist.

Alan Ball

#8. There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.

George Bird Grinnell

#9. Since Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in setting up the United Nations and the Nuremberg trials, the U.S. has promoted universal legal norms and the institutions to enforce them while seeking, by hook or by crook, to exempt American citizens, especially soldiers, from their actual application.

Michael Ignatieff

#10. We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled.

George Bird Grinnell

#11. Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

Philip Pearlstein

#12. I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

Robert Morgan

#13. The Cheyenne Indians: their history and lifeways : edited and illustrated

George Bird Grinnell

#14. A culture of intimidation has no justification in any administration.

John Barrasso

#15. people must die, so that their friends who are left alive may always remember them.

George Bird Grinnell