Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gordon Gee

What has gratified me the most is the enthusiasm I have witnessed this week on campus and among our alumni and friends. No doubt that a winning team brings great credit to the university.

Charles Steger

We have received hundreds of letters from fans and alumni who are disturbed by what they saw.

John Peters

The exposure that has resulted from our recent football success has had a profoundly positive impact on NIU. Enrollment applications soared, financial support rose and student and alumni pride and participation flourished.

Martin Tobias

We were certainly motivated by all the alumni that came out in the rain to watch us play. They provided a big boost to have them here and for us to celebrate with all the alumni was a big motivator.

Wendy Kopp

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

Garron Whitehouse

We'd love to see former players and school alumni there for a community celebration.

Ann Kaplan

One of the reasons for Princeton's lower rank could be that it is a smaller school. Plus, it raises a disproportionate amount from alumni as opposed to other institutions with large corporate donations.

Craig Johnson

I was stunned . . . how many alumni told me how much he meant to them ? and not only musically. He is a real model for all of us.

Nido Qubein

We are honored to have such a committed community of alumni and friends. We welcome our HPU family back to campus on this special weekend and encourage them to join in our extraordinary vision for High Point University.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.

Charles Dickens

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Chester W. Nimitz

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

Chris Johnson

We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season.

Phil Nevin

Where is he? It's his first day, and he's already 20 minutes late. I hope someone is going to make him run laps.

Maria Bamford

I never really thought of myself as depressed so much as paralyzed by hope.

Dennis Lehane

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Alan Shearer

Yes, I do like to be in control. I do like everything to be laid out, to know what I'm doing. I'm very impatient. I like things done yesterday, which is probably a fault of mine. I like things to be neat and tidy and organised. I say what I want and show what I want and I keep things private.

David Alan Basche

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Nick Reid

To go out on top with a big win like this, it just hasn't sunk in yet. We've come a long way. It's pretty neat to be part of the foundation.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

Erica McKenzie

We won with superstars back to back. Now here we are with a totally different team trying to three-peat... . That's what's neat with this team.

Gregory Wasson

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and closets.

Dave Allison

He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.

Bob Hill

Here's what I really remember about Mike. On Thanksgiving he had us all over in Milan. We all had Thanksgiving at his apartment. It was just a neat day.