quotes about College Experience

“That was exactly why people didn't want to give us any kind of life, because we were threatening their status quo, and they just didn't want to have room for girls playing rock 'n' roll. It bothered them. First, people just tried to get around it by saying, "Oh, wow, isn't that cute? Girls playing rock 'n' roll!," and when we said, "Yeah, right, this isn't a phase; it's what we want to do with our lives," it became, "Oh! You must be a bunch of sluts. You dykes, you whores." That's what it became. Then it became a name-calling contest.”

“With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be.”

“When I was told my team was lucky to win, I replied: "the more we practice, the luckier we get."”

“The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did.”

“Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.”

“None shall take advantage of his own wrong.”

“Expressed affection is the best of all methods to use when you want to light a glow in someone's heart and to feel it in your own.”

“It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.”

Source : Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

“the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2001). “A New Selected Poems”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“A light exists in Spring Not present in the year at any other period When March is scarcely here.”