Ivy League Schools Quotes

• Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.

  Russell Baker

  School, Yale, Ivy

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• My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

  Troian Bellisario

  School, Ivy, League

  Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

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• For some students, school is the only place where they get a hot meal and a warm hug. Teachers are sometimes the only ones who tell our children they can go from an Indian reservation to the Ivy League, from the home of a struggling single mom to the White House.

  Denise Juneau

  Mom, Teacher, Children

  "2012 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by The Honorable Denise Juneau". Reuters, September 05, 2012.

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• When I was 14 or 15, I was a really good volleyball player, so I thought, 'Well, maybe I'll just get a scholarship to an Ivy League school through volleyball.' Then I quit when I decided to focus on theater.

  Elizabeth Olsen

  Volleyball, School, Player

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By climbing a steeper road, the value and appreciation Delaware State students took and continue to take from their education and their experiences is just as great, if not greater, than students attending ivy league schools.

  Michael N. Castle

  Appreciation, School, Climbing

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• I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

  Richard Land

  School, Ivy, League

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I never graduated high school; they had to change the Ivy League rules. During my tenure at Brown, I helped them become the number one Ivy League school.

  Robert Evans

  Change, School, Ivy

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• Everyone today is like, 'Shailene, you're getting so much buzz. How does the feel?' It's the most odd question because it's like asking a kid who got into Cornell how it feels to be the top of your class at one of the Ivy League schools. How do you answer that? You just go, 'I don't know.

  Shailene Woodley

  School, Kids, Class

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• There's an African-American professor at a noted Ivy League school who is saying there's three kinds of white people, and only one of the three different kinds is worth anything, and that they're so tiny and so small a group that you don't need to be worried.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Ivy, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Teacher, Kids, School

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• There's more philosophy in jiu-jitsu mats than in any Ivy League school in America.

  Renzo Gracie

  Philosophy, School, Ivy

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• There's a bias on hiring the best engineers wherever they come from. It does seem like a lot of the non-engineering execs come from Ivy League schools, as is true in much of corporate America and government.

  Ken Auletta

  School, Government, Engineering

  "Ask the Author Live: Ken Auletta on Sheryl Sandberg". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I never went to camp as a kid. I couldn't get into an Ivy League school. I wouldn't join a biker club.

  Bob Saget

  School, Kids, Ivy

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. December 02, 2010.

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• If parents are aiming at choosing children who will be good athletes, or great musicians, or who will get into Ivy League schools, or who will be tall enough to make the basketball team, then there is a danger that the life of the child will bear the burden of that expectation; and the risk of disappointment and the cost of disappointment will be even higher than they are now, and even now they can be considerable.

  Michael Sandel

  Basketball, Children, Disappointment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

  Doug Flutie

  School, Ivy, League

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