Syracuse Quotes

• Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.

  Dionysius I of Syracuse

  Wisdom, Silence, Speech

  "Handy-book of Literary Curiosities". Book by William Shepard Walsh, 1892.

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• I would like somebody to be hated more than I am.

  Dionysius I of Syracuse

  Hated

  "The Tyrants: 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption". Book by Clive Foss, 2006.

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• I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone says.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Reading, Mind Blowing, Mentor

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.

  Shemp Howard

  Rome, Watersheds, Built

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a kid I said 'Bob Costas went to Syracuse, I'm going to Syracuse'

  Ian Eagle

  Kids, Bob, Said

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• The color and spectacle of Mexico's streets sparked my interest in community driven space and experience, a passion that I began to develop while studying architecture at Syracuse University and then at the Architectural Association School in London. Having been immersed in such a diverse array of lively environments, it would be impossible for me not to use these memories and experiences as inspiration for my work.

  David Rockwell

  Memories, Inspiration, Passion

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Too much sun after a Syracuse winter does strange things to your head, makes you feel strong, even if you aren't.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Strong, Spring, Winter

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.180, Macmillan

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• There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Games, Riot

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• In presidential campaign I released a 65-page file from the Syracuse University College of Law that showed poor grades, back in college, also. If I were plagiarizing consistently, my grades would have been better.

  Joe Biden

  College, Law, Presidential

  "Chris Wallace Interviews Joe Biden: A Retrospective". spectator.org. October 22, 2015.

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• All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

  Dana Spiotta

  Wall, Streets, Feels

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• Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.

  Mike Tirico

  Thinking, People, Peers

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• One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.

  Mike Tirico

  Senior, Sports, Couple

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• There's a late-night scene in every town, and everyone has something going on, ... I've heard good stories about (Syracuse); this is a very good party town, a good drinking place. I definitely would like to come back and check it out further. Do some more research, as I call it.

  Dave Attell

  Funny, Party, Drinking

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• There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

  Connie Francis

  Rome, Boston, Cities

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• I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran track at Syracuse. He played professional football for the Browns.

  Will McDonough

  Inspirational, Basketball, Football

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• People didn't know certain things about me, which... I was out of creative writing class in school, Syracuse University; had a B.A. in English and wanted to write the great American novel but I also loved rock and roll. I was in bar bands all through college, playing fraternities and have to know all the songs in the top 10. That kind of thing.

  Lou Reed

  Song, School, Writing

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.

  Bertrand Russell

  Kings, Plato, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.95, Routledge

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• You'd have to live in a cave not to know about the Carrier Dome. It put Syracuse on the map.

  Dick Vitale

  Maps, Domes, Caves

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• My grandmother got her law degree from Syracuse University in roughly 1911 and later co-founded with her husband an investment banking firm on Wall Street known as Lebenthal & Co.

  Buzz Bissinger

  Wall, Husband, Grandmother

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• Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

  John Grisham

  Memphis, Chance, Communist

  John Grisham (2004). “The Last Juror”, Doubleday Books

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• My father was one of 11. He was an attorney. My mother worked for the Syracuse newspaper as a columnist before she became a stay-at-home mother.

  Siobhan Fallon Hogan

  Mother, Father, Home

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