University Of Michigan Quotes

• Throughout my life I have dreamed of coaching at the University of Michigan.

  Jim Harbaugh

  Coaching, Michigan, University

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• I graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Communications and left formal education behind.

  Sarah Zettel

  Education, Communication, Michigan

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• Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

  Denard Robinson

  Team, Fighting, Play

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• Living in a bubble as I said in a featherbed of privilege. That's why leaving home, leaving the prep school and going to the University of Michigan in the early '60s was a moment of awakening and to go to a place like Michigan and to see suddenly a world in flames and the injustices all around was quite a wake up call. I lasted a year and a half at Michigan before I dropped out and joined the merchant marines and I was a merchant marine for my sophomore year then I came back to Michigan.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, School, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• So we were ecstatic and we swirled around spontaneously, the campus in Ann Harbor and about 4,000 of us landed on the steps of the president of the University of Michigan's home.

  Bill Ayers

  Home, President, Michigan

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Organization, Growth

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.

  Bill Ayers

  Mom, Dad, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.

  Davy Rothbart

  Writing, School, Night

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I played Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

  Margo Martindale

  Cat, Years, Hot

  "Margo Martindale: A 'Justified' Moonshine Matriarch". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 12, 2011.

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• In the field of Egyptian mathematics Professor Karpinski of the University of Michigan has long insisted that surviving mathematical papyri clearly demonstrate the Egyptians' scientific interest in pure mathematics for its own sake. I have now no doubt that Professor Karpinski is right, for the evidence of interest in pure science, as such, is perfectly conclusive in the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus.

  James Henry Breasted

  Long, Doubt, Michigan

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

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• Another picture I hope to be remembered by is this one of the drum major rehearsing at the University of Michigan. It was early in this morning, and I saw a little boy running after him, all the faculty children in the playing field ran after the boy, and I ran after them. This is a completely spontaneous, unstaged picture.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Running, Morning, Children

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• I started acting at the University of Michigan in my sophomore year.

  David Alan Grier

  Years, Acting, Michigan

  "David Alan Grier's 'Sporting Life' On Broadway". "Fresh Air", www.npr.org. May 22, 2012.

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• Doubtless many can recall certain books which have greatly influenced their lives, and in my own case one stands out especially-a translation of Hofmeister's epoch-making treatise on the comparative morphology of plants. This book, studied while an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, was undoubtedly the most important factor in determining the trend of my botanical investigation for many years.

  Douglas Houghton Campbell

  Book, Science, Years

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