Quotes For Incoming Freshmen

#1. In 1971, 73 percent of incoming freshmen said that it is essential or very important to "develop a meaningful philosophy of life," 37 percent to be "very well-off financially" (not well-off, note, but very well-off). By 2011, the numbers were almost reversed, 47 percent and 80 percent, respectively.

William Deresiewicz

#2. I could write pages and pages about the delights of being a full-time housewife and mother and trying to write and support a family with two babies - but I don't use that kind of language in public.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

#3. Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

Jay Leno

#4. If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.

Beverley Mitchell

#5. I'm just glad you're all right. And if you want to date, I promise I won't gut the little ... Male."
She laughed at that. " I can wait until you're ready. I don't want you in jail for it."
Fain smiled. "Very well I'm told ninety is a prime dating age for a human female.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

William John Wills

#7. Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

Malcolm Gladwell

#8. One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid ... One wants ... But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?

Tony Kushner

#9. A life I didn't choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have to do.

Adrienne Rich

#10. Ee come a time when eby tub haffa res pon e won bottom, said Hepzibah, then translated: At some point in life, you have to stand on your own two feet.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. We live
off the distances

Ernst Meister

#12. Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate for India's main opposition

Anonymous

#13. Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

Albert Einstein

#14. flooding the world with a bounty of Froot Loops, Lucky Charms, and Count Chocula.

Rick Riordan