Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“It was like that Talking Head song. „And you may ask yourself, 'How did I get here?' … And you may tell yourself, 'This…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and…

— Barbara Mikulski

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman

“He had not liked the things taught to him in college. He had been taught a great deal about social responsibility, about a life…

— Ayn Rand

“emotional stress in his life.  He was also intelligent.  He’d earned a Masters Degree in education and”

— Brian Harmon

“He had just graduated from college...and he wanted to decide whether life was worth living. He did not know that this was the question…

— Ayn Rand

It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years…

— Simon Kuznets

“The thing was, Mitchell now knew what Merton meant, or thought he did. As he took in the marvelous sights, the dusty Polo grounds,…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“What were he and his friends doing, really, other than hanging from a branch, sticking their tongues out to catch the sweetness? He thought…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was…

— Charles Bukowski

“He wastes his time over his writing, trying to accomplish what geniuses and rare men with college educations sometimes accomplish.”

— Jack London

“Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience…

— James A. Michener