Quotes About Your Alma Mater

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

John Katzman

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

Vicki Lawrence

#7. I'm not going to play my violin, but with my dwarfism, I'm a bit of a mutant.

Peter Dinklage

#8. Maybe it's good to be traumatized in your youth, to make you think differently and step outside the box. Anybody can be comfortable, but if you get your world rocked, shaken as it were, then maybe it causes you to really go to a whole other level in a different way.

Charlie Trotter

#9. I was a Nancy Drew girl. Also Grimms' fairy tales.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. 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

#11. What some people invent the rest enlarge.

Jonathan Swift

#12. When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

John Calvin

#13. Trying to evade the people who frighten us. We come to work, have lunch, and go home. We goose-step in and goose-step out, changing our partner and wander all about, sashay around for a pat on the head, and promenade home till we all drop dead.

Joseph Heller

#14. My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.

Raymond Carver

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

Samantha Jayne

#16. 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

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

Malcolm X

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

David Mamet

#19. 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

#20. A woman bought you into this world, so you have no right to disrespect one.

Tupac Shakur

#21. 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

#22. I've found out it's fun to go shopping. It's such a feminine thing to do.

Marilyn Monroe

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

William O. Douglas

#27. 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

#28. When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

Rolf Harris

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

Bruce A. Sarte

#30. 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

#31. You got no soul, Cap'n," he said. "When a stranger comes into the city under the thrall of the dragon and challenges it with a glittery sword, weeell, there's only one outcome, ain't there? It's probably destiny.

Terry Pratchett

#32. 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