Quotes About College Textbooks

#1. It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

David Barton

#2. Everything I'm going to present to you was not in my textbooks when I went to school ... not even in my college textbooks. I'm a geophysicist, and [in] all my Earth science books when I was a student - I had to give the wrong answer to get an A.

Robert Ballard

#3. I think the community that you're in really can define your ability to be at peace with your circumstances.

Nick Jonas

#4. I could still remember how having a two day old baby makes you feel faintly sorry for everyone else, stuck in their wan unmiraculous lives.

Marni Jackson

#5. I don't believe in open relationships. If you want to be with someone else, you shouldn't be in a relationship in the first place.

Pixie Lott

#6. When all hopes are lost, only then does reality acquire that sharp focus that defines who we are and what we have become.

Greg Bear

#7. Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

Andrew Flintoff

#8. What if the insane are too raw to know which stations are real and which are just confused static?

Kate Scelsa

#9. My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

Brendan Myers

#10. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein

#11. I like high school and college writing textbooks and find them very helpful. Whenever I'm stuck and seem to have no ideas, I open one up and turn to the back. There I'll find questions like, "Have you had any experiences with an alcoholic or a sailor?"

David Sedaris

#12. If you want to know how Hillary Clinton could try to distance herself from President Obama's much-criticized foreign policy, listen closely to the words of her former top strategist, Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Nina Easton

#13. I think coldness is chic among writers, and particularly ironic coldness. What is absolutely not allowable is sadness. People will do anything rather than to acknowledge that they are sad.

Mary Gordon

#14. When I was young I lost everything.

Elie Wiesel

#15. It was always embarrassing when professors assigned their own books. Even Madeleine, who found all the reading hard going, could tell that Zipperstein's contribution to the field was reformulative and second-tier.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

Joan Walsh Anglund

#17. While you can't hold on to everything forever, you're a fool if you sell back your college books at semester's end: have you learned nothing of this life?

Ander Monson

#18. When you get divorced and you don't get the house (which I never did), you leave behind all sorts of things you don't have the sense to know you'll someday wonder about, or wish you still had, or, worst of all, feel genuinely nostalgic for.

Nora Ephron