Harvard Quotes

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

When I got to Saturday Night Live, it was a lot like going from pre-school to Harvard, and it took a long time to figure stuff out.

The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale.

Not a Harvard-type education, just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

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

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

By the time I got to Harvard, I feel like I knew who I was, and my job there was to throw as much against the wall as possible, to see what would stick.

I didn't go to Harvard because I thought they had good academics. I went because they had crappy enough sports so they'd let me play.

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting room on the Harvard campus, where I was an undergraduate.

Harvard produces leaders. People with Harvard degrees go on to become administrators in high-level positions in state educational departments and in public schools around the country.

Robert wondered if any of Harvard's revered Egyptologists had ever knocked on the door of a pyramid and expected an answer.

My dad was a singer in a band and neither of my parents went to college, and I ended up getting into Harvard and was the first person in my family that went to college and it happened to be Harvard.

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

I think the minority students that we admit to Harvard are every bit as meritorious as the white students that we admit.

Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism.

You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It's like Harvard.

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

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

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills.

I was at Harvard Medical School and there were not a lot of, kind of, community health options, and I wound up at - sort of in Harvard Community Health Center for various reasons.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed.

I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction.

Harvard has something that manages, I think, to provide a lot of options for students, but still fairly prescriptive about the kinds of subjects that the courses ought to cover.

Perhaps Harvard's greatest contribution to our nation is its requirement that its on-leave professors who want to keep their crimson seats must return from Washington after 24 months.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

The first stop on this crazy train is Kindergarten Junction, and nobody gets off until it pulls into Harvard Station.

Teacher: "If your daughter knew her spelling words as well as her Bible stories she'd get into Harvard." Me: "I'll settle for Heaven."

There are a few other things that I built when I was at Harvard that were kind of smaller versions of Facebook.

The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United States government, and the Chinese government to aggressively pursue digital education.

When I arrived at Harvard, I wanted to design a course in political theory that would have interested me, back when I was started out, in a way that the standard things didn't.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

The Harvard Lampoon itself, which had a pretty stellar run in the '60s.

[Buckminster Fuller] always liked to say that he got kicked out of Harvard three times. Mostly you only got kicked out once, but he kept coming back.

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

He looked like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college age villain was wearing to Harvard this year.

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.