Undergrads Quotes & Sayings

In elementary school, many a true word is spoken in guess. — Henny Youngman

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. — Mark Twain

It worries me that undergrads and high school students are forced into books they aren't ready for, like Faulkner's, and then they are afraid of putting their toes in the water again. — Alice McDermott

It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers. — Nina Easton

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up. — Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

You were in the equipment shed with Corn Fritter?"
"Corndog," Will, Dr. Salter, and I say simultaneously. — Miranda Kenneally

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle. — Brad Garrett

I urge the Bush Administration to rethink its priorities. We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities. — Joe Lieberman

I pass flurries of undergrads who, despite their proudly proclaimed diversity, look more and more the same. — Stephen L. Carter

The uninitiated often assumed that undergraduate students were at the bottom rung, but undergrads were the paying customers, or at least their parents were. And paying customers needed to be kept happy. Grad students worked for the school as teaching and research assistants--TAs and RAs--but weren't really proper employees, and as such they weren't entitled to the benefits that, say, a cataloger in the Coffey Library received. Then there was the fact that they had to learn to leave behind passive studying and test taking, which was what most of them had been taught in their school careers up to that point, and learn how to actively attack research problems and come up with new ideas, all while being poorly paid. Like Helen had said, a not insignificant number of grad students left after a year instead of sticking around to work on obtaining their PhDs. Who could blame them? Industry paid more and had better benefits. — Neve Maslakovic

We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own. — Barack Obama

Left to their own devices, Valenti and his son Kyle tended to live like a couple of undergrads in some low-rent fraternity house. — Andy Mangels

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within. — Judith Wright

The way of war
was the invention
of heavenly beings. — Toba Beta

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait! — Bertolt Brecht

I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for the poor in Nicaragua to landing prime White House internships. — Nina Easton

When Facebook first started, and it was just a social directory for undergrads at Harvard, it would have seemed like such a bad startup idea, like some student side project. — Paul Graham

Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit! — Giuseppe Bianco

A recent survey of Top Five Fears places public speaking alongside "identity theft" and "mass shootings." In the 1980s, it completed with "nuclear destruction." In the 1970s, "shark attack. — John Capecci And Timothy Cage

It was hard to know how to play the game when the rules kept changing. — Laurie Halse Anderson

She felt empty yet full, spent yet bursting with energy, drowsy yet wide awake. She felt love. — Andrea Lochen

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive ... — David Gray