Graduation Quote by Al Lewis

Harvard meant a lot in my writing life from the beginning, even though I didnt actually do much composition on the spot.

— Seamus Heaney

Harvard created wonderful conditions for me as a writerbut the writing was done, almost entirely, when I got home.

— Seamus Heaney

The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in…

— Philip Warren Anderson

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could…

— John Updike

In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as much at…

— Samuel Johnson

At Harvard, I majored in English Literature.

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought.

— Robert Darnton

I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter…

— Aleksandar Hemon

I had an excellent Ivy League education, and it gave me a long view of things.

— Steve Wynn

My mother hid the struggle from us children. She complained about her salary, and she had a tough time. Although she became a headmistress,…

— Derek Walcott

“What we're really sending you to Harvard for is to get a little of the educations that's so good and plenty there. When it's…

— George Horace Lorimer

My father's mother really had a profound influence on me. She literally began her day with an hour of reading. But the most fundamental…

— Ashraf Ghani