Alma Mater Quotes

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  My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

  Malcolm X

  Life, Education, Book

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Wherever you go and whatever ends you pursue, you must always fulfill the trust reposed in you by your nation, your parents and your alma mater

  Samar Mubarakmand

  Parent, Ends, Pursue

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• There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Individual, Mankind

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.3604, Delphi Classics

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• To cite my own alma mater, it's shocking to me that Yale University can teach what it teaches at the Yale School of Environmental Studies and utterly fail to mirror those values in any way in its investment practices.

  Edward Norton

  School, Yale, Practice

  "Dialogues on the Environment: Q&A With Edward Norton". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2013.

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• My alma mater was books, a good library.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Reading, Library

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• The Internet will save higher education, but it may kill your alma mater.

  John Katzman

  May, Internet, Higher Education

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

  David Mamet

  Library, Chicago, Public Library

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• At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university`s board of trustees for more than three decades.

  Chaka Fattah

  Games, Philadelphia, Boards

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Will you not, as a loyal student of dear old Baylor, lay aside for a few days the usual cares of life, come back to your alma mater, renew former associations and friendships, and catch that Baylor spirit again?

  Samuel Palmer

  Usual, Baylor, Care

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Climbing

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• I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island.

  Viola Davis

  Running, Educational, Niece

  Source: aalbc.com

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• For quite some time, I have wanted to live on the central coast of California and get more involved at Cal Poly, my alma mater; spend more time with my wife and sons; travel to interesting parts of the world; and something I have wanted to do for years-- finish the requirements for my pilot's license.

  Peter Oppenheimer

  Son, California, Years

  "Apple’s Peter Oppenheimer to Retire at the End of September", www.apple.com. March 4, 2014.

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• Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books." You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Men, Asking Questions

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• I cast people from right around me. I was at my alma mater. It's special to have most of the graduate students in it [and] one professor, because I feel like in terms of this school, I was one of the few students lucky enough to break into the art industry or the contemporary art world.

  Kalup Linzy

  Art, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• College was an experience I'll always cherish. Now I fund a scholarship at my alma mater in my late father's name-he'd laugh to know that it's a science scholarship, when I can barely do math! I also fund a nursing scholarship at the Oglala Lakota College in Kyle, South Dakota, in the name of my mother, who was a nurse.

  Diana Palmer

  Mother, Father, Nursing

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• An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, ‘What’s your alma mater?’ I told him, ‘Books.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Asking Questions, London

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books

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• Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every loyal owl Thy splendid banner emblazoned be. Now to thy golden talons Homage we're bringing. Guiding symbol of our hopes and fears Hark to the cries of eternal praises ringing Long may we triumph in the coming years. - The Owls of St. Aegolius

  Kathryn Lasky

  Song, Memories, Years

  Kathryn Lasky (2010). “Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians”, p.33, Scholastic Inc.

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• My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. I got what little educational foundation I got in the third-floor reading room, under the tutelage of a Coca-Cola sign.

  David Mamet

  Educational, Reading, Library

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• I certainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensitivity to the deafness, dumbness and blindness that was afflicting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me, asking questions. One was, "What's your alma mater?" I told him, "Books.

  Alex Haley

  Book, College, Asking Questions

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• Sandra Day O'Connor - once she said that there are - there were no public schools in America until the 18th century, and she overlooked my alma mater because we started - I say we - in 1635. And among the people who went there - and they're on - the walls in the auditorium, the names are: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Cotton Mather, Benjamin Franklin, except he split when he was 10 years old to go to work.

  Nat Hentoff

  Wall, School, Years

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• Public image is extremely important in American society and I observed personally that the Presidency of John F. Kennedy did much in the public mind for Harvard. Harvard was an excellent school before Kennedy, but Kennedy embodied a new vision for the United States: a leader who caught the world's imagination and that reflected on his alma mater, Harvard.

  Henry Rosovsky

  School, Imagination, Leader

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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