Best Alma Mater Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”

“While one was an undergraduate, one could feel virtuous and indignant at the vices of Oxford, at least at those which one did not indulge in, particularly at the flunkeyism and money-worship which are our most prevalent and disgraceful sins. But when one is a fellow it is quite another affair. They become a sore burthen then, enough to break one's heart.”

Faculty Alma Mater Institutional Memory

Book:Tom Brown at Oxford

Source: Tom Brown at Oxford

“Here beneath the towering pines, by the river blue Farragut will ever stand, alma mater true”

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Book:Towering Pines Volume One: Room 509

Source: Towering Pines Volume One: Room 509

“My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.”

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Author:David Mamet

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

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Author:John Katzman

“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.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“Experience comes from bad judgment.”

“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.”

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Author:Kalup Linzy

“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.”

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Author:Chaka Fattah

“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.”

“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.”

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Author:Nat Hentoff

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

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“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.”

“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”

Source: Guardians of Ga'Hoole Collection: Legend of the Guardians

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

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“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.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“My alma mater was books, a good library.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“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”

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Author:Samar Mubarakmand

“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.”

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Author:David Mamet

“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.”

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Author:Peter Oppenheimer

“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?”

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Author:Samuel Palmer

“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.”

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Author:Diana Palmer