Quotes About My Alma Mater

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Samantha Jayne

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

Malcolm X

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

David Mamet

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

H.G.Wells

#11. Well, you put a gun to my head."
"No. I put a suggestion in your mind and a gun in your hands.

Jeremy Robert Johnson

#12. 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

#13. I'd heard stuff from out there that I was just another player, that I was too young. I wanted to show I could play with anybody.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. 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

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

Vicki Lawrence

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

P.T. Barnum

#22. I hate to tell things in which I don't belive to impress people who are not on my mind so that they see my false image.

Bryanna Reid

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

Bruce A. Sarte

#24. 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

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

John Katzman