Quotes About Alma Mater

#1. The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

John Katzman

#2. My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

David Mamet

#3. My alma mater was books, a good library ... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

Malcolm X

#4. Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880 ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.

Sarah Vowell

#5. Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater

Samar Mubarakmand

#6. My alma mater implored me
to send them a donation.
If anything, I should write them
an equal invitation.

Samantha Jayne

#7. Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again?

Samuel Palmer

#8. There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Henry Fielding

#9. I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.

Vicki Lawrence

#10. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Malcolm X

#11. Shortly after Senator Eugene J. McCarthy died in 2005 the age of 89, I became an honorary member of the committee starting a fellowship in McCarthy's name at his alma mater, Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Kitty Kelley

#12. I have taught some master classes and things at my alma mater and sometimes at my kids' school. I will go in and talk to the theater students. I wouldn't really call myself a teacher.

Annie Potts

#13. I turn to my mom as she sets her purse down on the table near the front door. I think about telling her. She deserves to know about the letter, I know that, but she was so proud of the fact that I was going to attend her alma mater and be a teacher just like her... I can't do it, not yet. "Oh...

Emma Keene

#14. I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

Kalup Linzy

#15. To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.

Edward Norton

#16. To me, that's what makes college so great and unique, as opposed to the pros. This is your alma mater. This is a part of you.

Tom Rinaldi

#17. Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue
Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true

Bruce A. Sarte

#18. She was thinking about how her middle-school alma mater was now 75 percent Latino, when in her day it was 80 percent black. Thinking

Paul Beatty

#19. Gregory: Well, Dane, you could share your impression with my alma mater instead.
Dane: It's a challenge.
Gregory: Glad to hear that hasn't changed. And which part do you find the most challenging?
Dane: Living up to your reputation.

Anne Osterlund

#20. About 13-14 years ago, I went back to my alma mater, Fairfax High School, and ran into the music teacher. She invited me to come speak to the kids about the viability of a music career. When I went into the room where I used to play every day in a big orchestra, they had nothing!

Flea

#21. I have never known a patient to portray his parents more negatively than he actually experienced them in childhood but always more positively
because idealization of his parents was essential for his survival.

Alice Miller

#22. Claude believed that only smart, attractive people had the right to fuck, and it sincerely hurt him when he discovered evidence to the contrary.

Tom Robbins

#23. How exhausting, Clary thought, to fight all your life and then be expected to continue that fight even when your life was over.

Cassandra Clare

#24. It might do wonders for your marriage," Amelia continued. "It's lovely to talk to your husband after you've been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything." - Amelia to Poppy

Lisa Kleypas

#25. Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

James A. Garfield

#26. In private, though, you may call me Mr. Cavendish

R.K. Lilley

#27. I'm into mellow dates with really good food.

Lauren Conrad

#28. In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

David Nicholls

#29. I am somehow allowed by the universe to do exactly what I want to do to make a living.

Kyle Kinane

#30. Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

George Pelecanos