Welcome to our Alumni Quotes page, where the voices of our esteemed graduates echo through time, offering insights, reflections, and inspiration. Our alumni are the heart and soul of our institution, embodying the values, knowledge, and experiences that define our community. Their words encapsulate the essence of their journey through our institution, illustrating the transformative power of education and the lasting impact it has on individuals and society.
As you delve into the collection of quotes curated from our alumni, you’ll discover a tapestry of perspectives, aspirations, and achievements. Each quote serves as a testament to the diverse paths our graduates have taken and the profound influence our institution has had on their lives. From poignant reflections on personal growth to impassioned calls for change, these quotes offer a glimpse into the myriad ways in which education shapes individuals and empowers them to make a difference in the world. Whether you’re a current student, a prospective applicant, or simply curious about the experiences of our alumni, these quotes provide a window into the vibrant tapestry of our community.
To the UCLA students, alumni, and fans, I appreciate all of your unwavering support. Josh Rosen
Our next-door neighbour taught physics at Hampton University. Our church abounded with mathematicians. Supersonics experts held leadership positions in my mother’s sorority, and electrical engineers sat on the board of my parents’ college alumni associations. Margot Lee Shetterly
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. Constance Baker Motley
I’ve been in all kinds of various arrangements of chain of command, and I was very comfortable – and everybody was – and I think the music shows that. I’m an honorary Foo Fighter, I guess. Or alumni or something. I’m proud to be one. Joe Walsh
I think Trixie and I get the least amount of hate out of all the ‘Drag Race’ alumni. Katya Zamolodchikova
Little old University of Houston jumping up, swinging with the big boys, and that’s something to take pride in. I’m happy for our fans, I’m happy for our alumni, but more importantly, I’m happy for our players. Kelvin Sampson
My wife and I often have debates about who studied in a better school and when I list KVM alumni, she kind of loses the argument. Pankaj Kapur
Northwestern’s alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that’s just me! Stephen Colbert
In college, the students and alumni are generally 100 percent behind the team. Only the coach gets the blame when something goes wrong. Cris Collinsworth
I studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, which was founded by Laurence Olivier and has alumni like Jeremy Irons and Daniel Day Lewis. It’s a very erudite institution; its ethos, really, was always theatre-based. Mark Strong
I do have a lot of alumni in Washington. Gene Green
I did three of the original ‘Twilight Zone’ episodes, yes. Also, I did a little thing in the feature film, and then I wrote one of the episodes in ‘The Twilight Zone’s last round where I starred with Cloris Leachman and my daughter Liliana in a true sequel to ‘It’s a Good Life.’ So, yes, I have a good ‘Twilight Zone’ alumni jacket. Bill Mumy
The resources at Harvard – its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni – created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance. Kenneth C. Griffin
Being able to access that Stanford alumni network was huge – I actually interned at PayPal while I was at Stanford and learned a lot. Being in that environment and learning about it as a student was really fun. Joe Lonsdale
I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone. Jaan Tallinn
The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world. John Shelby Spong
I’m a great fan of Bloomingdale’s, and I’m a very loyal alumni of Parsons. I think what they do, what they’ve done, is amazing. They’ve educated some of the best American designers. Narciso Rodriguez
Cal Poly is my kind of school. So many universities I visit boast about boring alumni like pioneering surgeons and Olympic athletes. But Cal Poly has none other than Weird Al Yankovic! Milo Yiannopoulos
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America’s Most Wanted. Yancy Butler
I’m the face of the B.C. alumni organization. Jared Dudley
I didn’t finish college, which is really weird because they awarded me the Alumni of Distinction recently. Joely Fisher
I’ve been excited since I received a phone call from Paul Holmgren inviting me to represent the Flyers and Flyer fans at the alumni game of the Winter Classic weekend. Eric Lindros
The privilege of wearing Crimson A comes with an expectation. Not just from your brothers on the field, but an expectation from family, alumni, fans and really the entire world. You are expected to dominate, be relentless in pursuit and play with a contagious energy. Minkah Fitzpatrick
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. Wendy Kopp
But a funny thing happened four years later. I was invited to play for an alumni team against the Red Wings. Ted Lindsay
It was some great times and some great moments… I’m proud to be a WWE alumni. If it wasn’t for my time there, there’s no way I’d be excelling at Fox and acting. Tyrus
Saint Joseph’s still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe’s students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable. Jack Ramsay
It’s Teach For America’s responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent. Wendy Kopp
Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it’s more likely that they’ll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They’re also more likely to have parents who will donate large sums of money to the school. When the privileged students graduate, they’re expected to join the alumni association and also donate cash. Ana Kasparian
It’s unbelievable. I’m still trying to grasp the whole idea that I am an actually a Stanford Cardinal now. I’m actually representing an alumni that’s network is around the world, and the people there are unbelievable. Devon Cajuste
In the end, it’s about the teaching, and what I always loved about coaching was the practices. Not the games, not the tournaments, not the alumni stuff. But teaching the players during practice was what coaching was all about to me. John Wooden
Any institutions’ alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students. Shiv Nadar
If giving points to some students to achieve greater diversity is a quota system in violation of the Constitution, how can the awarding of points to the children of a less diverse alumni be upheld? Adam Schiff
Ultimately, I’d love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia. Ryan Holmes
On average, our corps members stay in the classroom for eight years. But again, given the systemic nature of educational inequity, we know it is vital that some of our alumni take their experience outside the classroom. Wendy Kopp
Tolerance of true diversity on university campuses – diversity of opinion and belief – has been eroding for decades while alumni and trustees looked the other way. Tom Tancredo
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty. Clark Kerr
Teach For America would not be able to continue recruiting and developing an ever-more diverse and impactful group of corps members and alumni if the nation’s leading colleges become even less diverse. Wendy Kopp
In the U.S. and Canada, 50% of the young leadership of all the organizations like AIPAC and Hillel are Birthright alumni. Charles Bronfman
Every day I am part of my local town community, part of Rio Mesa High School Alumni, part of the racing world, part of the diabetes community worldwide. Charlie Kimball
The one thing you’ve got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did. William Scott
A founder can carry an institution only so far, and then others have to step in, even the alumni. That’s how an institution becomes one. Shiv Nadar
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. Robert M. Hutchins
Schools like Doon or Lawrence in Sanawar didn’t decide to create leaders when they started. Look at their alumni list today, and you have a former prime minister, Olympic gold medallist, army generals, cabinet ministers, and leaders in different spheres. Some kind of training started at the school level itself that helped create leaders. Roshni Nadar
In America, many marginally competent or flatly incompetent whites are hired every day -some because their white skin suits the conscious or unconscious racial preference of their employers. The white children of alumni are often grandfathered into elite universities in what can only be seen as a residual benefit of historic white privilege. Shelby Steele
Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni. N. R. Narayana Murthy
I’ve heard a number of our alumni – people who are running schools and school systems – think a lot about different models for the teaching profession. Wendy Kopp
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture. Ben Sasse