Adult life Quote by David Dellinger

I went from Yale to jail, and got a good education in both places.

— David Dellinger

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban…

— Cory Booker

Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.

— Brian Tyree Henry

There was a lot of rebelliousness, without focus, in my younger years. And even when people ask me, "Oh you went to prison and…

— Immortal Technique

I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.

— Jack Abbott

I had three jobs to make my way through Yale.

— Scott Bessent

I grew up in Brownsville; most of the kids I grew up with went to jail, not Yale. If they had heard of Yale,…

— Mitch Leigh

I went to Yale in 1980 and always through I'd like to come back to South Carolina but imagined I needed to live away…

— Scott Bessent

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

— Oscar Wilde

I went to college at Harvard, then did three years of graduate school at Yale. At both places I studied comparative literature. People find…

— Lev Grossman

I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy.

— Claire Danes

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of…

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr