Quotes About Penn State

#1. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.

Don Sherwood

#2. Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Tim Holden

#3. Penn State University is also nationally recognized for the exceptional research and patient care provided at the College of Medicine, located in my Congressional District in Hershey, PA.

Tim Holden

#4. Penn State is a leader in food science.

Don Sherwood

#5. Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

Christine Pelosi

#6. I'm hoping that Penn State will one day be able to find a cure for cancer. Being a part of THON means I'm doing my part to find that cure.

James Wolfe

#7. When you want to know what Penn State is, and when you want to know what 'We Are' means, come to THON.

Jay Paterno

#8. One out of every eight Pennsylvanians and one in every 720 people in the United States, as well as one out of every 50 engineers and one out of every four meteorologists has a Penn State degree.

Don Sherwood

#9. We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself.

James Brown

#10. They ask me what I'd like written about me when I'm gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.

Joe Paterno

#11. I've had a wonderful experience here at Penn State.

Joe Paterno

#12. We also want to make sure Penn State becomes a national leader in this whole area of child abuse prevention and treatment.

Rodney Erickson

#13. From now on, anyone raped at Penn State should just tell Joe Paterno's statue. It couldn't help you any less than the real Joe would have.

Jim Norton

#14. As reporters in State College, there was a joke. We used to call Penn State, the Kremlin.

Rodney Erickson

#15. Mostly I want to talk positive; I wanna talk about a bunch of great kids that I coached and made me look good and the university that I've seen grow from a cow college, which it was, only 12,000 people, and when I came here, we weren't at Pennsylvania State University, we were at Penn State College.

Joe Paterno

#16. Penn State in 1955 became the first university to be issued a federal license to operate a nuclear reactor, which it continues to use for studies in the peaceful uses of atomic energy and the training of nuclear industry personnel.

Don Sherwood

#17. Penn State has also continued to be a leader in Pennsylvania's largest industry: Agriculture.

Tim Holden

#18. [Jim Graham] had been a linebacker at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play.

Randy Pausch

#19. Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.

Sean Penn

#20. I smell fennel," Launcelot said. "That reminds me, I should tell you I have discovered a specific for maims. You take salt, good-quality river mud, and bee urine, and slather it on the maim and hold it there for two days. Works like a charm. Gathering the bee urine is a bit of a bore.

Donald Barthelme

#21. It has come to my attention, that air pollution is polluting the air!

George W. Bush

#22. You can't be a part-time man of principle.

John Amaechi

#23. Life in turn organises itself along deep, observable tendrils that do not speak of discrete, careful, artistic intervention, rather scream of haphazard chance and the emergency of survival.

John Zande

#24. What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Irving Penn

#25. Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

Andrew Murray

#26. It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

William Penn

#27. A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera")

George Sterling

#28. We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear.

Randolph Bourne

#29. I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?

Guy De Maupassant

#30. After everything that happened, how could I miss him? But I did, I did.

Sarah Dessen

#31. As long as one has good things in the mind, one can be happy. This I know.

M.L. Stedman

#32. I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

John Calvin