Yale Quotes

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. (George Weinberg)
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. View quote
David Dinkins
The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded? View quote
John Templeton
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. View quote
Camille Paglia
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised. View quote
Dorothy Parker
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time. View quote
Gerald Ford
Health care is too expensive, so the Clinton administration is putting Hillary in charge of making it cheaper. (This is what I always do when I want to spend less money - hire a lawyer from Yale.) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
If Tufts doesn't work out, my safety is to go back to Yale, where I used to teach. View quote
Robert Sternberg
I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg. View quote
Shia LaBeouf
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description. (Amy Chua)
The U.S. is blessed with tremendously creative and imaginative law students at places like Chicago, Harvard, Columbia and Yale. View quote
Cass Sunstein
When I got out of Yale Drama School, I was completely broke. View quote
Courtney B. Vance
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses. View quote
Albert Maltz
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. View quote
Carol P. Christ
I look at the kids coming out of Yale. They are so intelligent with their careers. I wish I had that. View quote
Dianne Wiest
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. View quote
Elyn Saks
Who is more in touch with the problems of this country? One of those guys who goes off to Oxford or to University of Yale, or someone who has lived in buses, in the Metro, in the street? View quote
Gloria Trevi
I used to teach at Yale, which was at one time a center of postmodernist literary theory. Derrida was there. Paul de Man was there. View quote
Harry Frankfurt
I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing. View quote
Katherine Moennig
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable. (Larry Kramer)
I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class. View quote
Maya Lin
Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing. View quote
Merrie Spaeth
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs. View quote
Michael Cerveris
And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy. View quote
Robert Klein