Books Quote by Orson Bean

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

— John Updike

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much…

— Baratunde Thurston

I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I had never seen Harvard Square.

— Edwin Arlington Robinson

I feel like my 50 years at Harvard were an interlude. I'm really a New Yorker.

— Alan Dershowitz

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

I've been in and out of academia ever since I was young.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Taking a look back, one big reqret is, I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world. The appalling…

— Bill Gates

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when…

— Tyler Winklevoss

There were times at Harvard when I actually longed to hang out with a few more Trotskyists, rather than yet another set of future…

— Ross Douthat

It's fashionable with the Sarah Palin set to attack Harvard and treat its graduates as elitists. But if you spend any time on campus,…

— David Ignatius

I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for the poor…

— Nina Easton

I went into Harvard one way and came out a different person... It's the air at Harvard; it's like a Renaissance court.

— Erich Segal