#radu

In front of us lay a smooth sandy beach, beyond which rose gradually a high wooded country, and behind us was the sea, studded with numerous islands of every variety of form. ↗

— George Grey

#behind #beyond #country #every #form

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #foreign #foreign languages

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters. ↗

— Margaret Halsey

#begin #characters #defects #dwell #engaging

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#any #being #children #college #college degree

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#african #african americans #any #anyone #breach

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey. ↗

— Antony Hewish

#bell #charts #construction #graduate #graduate student

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#country #course #ended #going #graduate

I am a teacher, and I am proud of it. At Cornell University I have taught primarily undergraduates, and indeed almost every year since 1966 have taught first-year general chemistry. ↗

— Roald Hoffmann

#am #chemistry #cornell #every #general

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#albert einstein #bad #bad people #before #danger

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot. ↗

— Al Jourgensen

#graduated #great #here #idiot #inarticulate