Cambridge Quotes

88 Cambridge quotes by 74 unique authors

Since my education, I've done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians - certainly when I… — Tom Hiddleston
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. — A. E. Housman
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to… — W. Somerset Maugham
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing… — Sylvia Plath
There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard… — Bonnie Raitt
Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect… — Bertrand Russell
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still. — Zadie Smith
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days. — Andrew Wiles
If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? -… — Virginia Woolf
I spent two years in Palo Alto - what an awful, suffocating place for those of us who don't care about yoga, yogurts and start-ups… — Evgeny Morozov
If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser… — Francis Spufford
You panicked". Venetia's voice is suddenly throbbing, as though she can't control a long-buried anger. "You panicked, Luke, and we lost the best relationship that… — Sophie Kinsella
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of their… — Jhumpa Lahiri
I think you’re freaked about what happened at Cambridge. I think it scared you." “I’ve been through worse, Bex,” I said, joining her on the… — Ally Carter
When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed, since… — Bertrand Russell
The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its… — James Clerk Maxwell
My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough,… — Eric Idle
When I was 13, I won a scholarship to boarding school. My parents let me choose whether to go, and I decided I wanted to.… — Stephen Mangan
I made it to London aged six, an event I recorded in my diary with coloured markers to convey my sense of occasion. And in… — Jean Hanff Korelitz
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen… — Richard Dawkins
Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field. — Stephen Hawking
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius came… — Robert Gottlieb
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not… — Claire Tomalin
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no… — Claire Tomalin
I was not proficient in Latin and so was not able to go to Oxford or Cambridge. However, I did enter the first-rate chemistry honours… — Michael W. Smith

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