Alumni Quotes
25 quotes by 25 authors
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We win or the alumni bash in our teeth. (On the dental plan at NC State)
— Jim Valvano
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...Started by missionaries in 1841, Punahou Academy had grown into a prestigious prep school, an incubator for island elites...It hadn't been easy to get me…
— Barack Obama
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I didn't finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently.
— Joely Fisher
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If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points…
— Adam Schiff
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Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be…
— Frank Bruni
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At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
— Constance Baker Motley
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I think the success of any school can be measured by the contribution the alumni make to our national life.
— John F. Kennedy
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Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law…
— Calvin Trillin
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Some would argue that the president himself benefited from a form of affirmative action because as a C student, he only got into Yale because…
— Jon Stewart
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The alumni of Second City from John Belushi to Martin Short have changed my entire life and brought a new kind of comedy to America…
— Bernie Brillstein
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I've been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game…
— Eric Lindros
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
— Yancy Butler
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We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.
— Noel Gallagher
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Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!
— Stephen Colbert
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I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
— Clark Kerr
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The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found…
— John Shelby Spong
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What would it be like to exist in a world without suffering? To have no needs, only desires? To be surrounded by so much beauty…
— Kirsten Miller
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Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.
— Maureen Johnson
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I went to James Monroe High School, a big school in the East Bronx. My first promotion was the first alumni reunion dance. I got…
— Sid Bernstein
Who Wrote These Alumni Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 25 Alumni Quotes as follows: