Princeton Quotes

"Princeton gave me something that can never be taken away from me. It taught me how to think."

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

I wouldn`t want to leave Princeton.

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

Children are amazing, and while I go to places like Princeton and Harvard and Yale, and of course I teach at Columbia, NYU, and that`s nice and I love students, but the most fun of all are the real little ones, the young ones.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I`d done theatricals in college, but I`d done them because it was fun.

(The cemetery shows the fleetingness of fame and wealth. Anyone remember John Finley, a Princeton politics professor who was also editor in chief of The New York Times until he retired in 1938? Mr. Sutphen pointed out the modest tombstone of Howard T. Behrman, 1912-1985:) He gave $20 million to Princeton University and I bet no one even looks at this. ... Monuments getting bigger.

I think it`s college, so kids are definitely liberal, so there`s definitely more of a presence of liberal points of view. It`s New York and it`s more of a liberal place. One of my buddies went to Princeton (University) and the campus was hard-core conservative.

He is an ideal player for Richmond. He`s a good high-low post player who can shoot from 3-point range, perfect for the Princeton offense.

Princeton Hospital appears to have everything in the world against it and not a lot going for it. They are swimming upstream in a fast-moving current.