Student Exchange Quotes

#1. Brandon for being excited about the student exchange

Rachel Renee Russell

#2. Addicts sometimes have a penchant for becoming the center of attention at other people's celebrations.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage; there's no betrayal of trust.

Aldrich Ames

#4. I started acting when I was 13, but it really wasn't my plan. The actual decision to become an actor was when I was 17, after I didn't act for half a year because I came to an exchange student program in the US, and I realized how much I missed it.

Meital Dohan

#5. I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

Zygmunt Bauman

#6. She prayed now, with desperate conviction but no faith, and she suspected it made no difference either way. When

Kate Atkinson

#7. Three principles of prayer:
1. Keep it honest.
2. Keep it simple.
3. Keep it up.

Nicky Gumbel

#8. Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

Robert B. Reich

#9. An exchange student from Afghanistan "finds himself in the midst of America's circus of self-invention" as he experiences Halloween for the first time. His hosts bauble, "It's the greatest of holidays when you can become anything you want.

Ron Suskind

#10. The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die
maybe.

Steve Earle

#11. A Pakistani exchange student's maternal American host "managed to summon the transforming question of her culture, built on the revolutionary idea that people are the sovereign, the boss, captains of their own fate.
She said, simply, "But what do YOU think?

Ron Suskind

#12. Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

Roman Jakobson

#13. I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Hannah Kent

#14. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable.

Blaise Pascal

#15. The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

Philip Zaleski

#16. If the family goes, so goes our civilization.

Ronald Reagan

#17. There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.

Kano Jigoro

#18. Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

Jason Schwartzman

#19. You bastard! Let me down!"
"Not on your life, beauty." The godlen claw gripped her tighter. "You get hurt, he'll kill me. Now quiet. I'm trying not to vomit."
Gwenvael to Annwyl

G.A. Aiken

#20. Anorak" was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school.

Ernest Cline

#21. I keep hearing "Should I buy? Should I buy?". When I start hearing "Should I sell? That's the bottom.

Nick Moore

#22. I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie ... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

Tao Okamoto

#23. Life is a miracle, and being aware of simply this can already make us very happy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#24. When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them I'd never had pizza before, and they'd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. It's really fun.

Misha Collins

#25. When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.

Patrick Wang

#26. Composition is as natural as jumping and running to children who have been allowed due use of books.

Charlotte Mason