Anna Quindlen Quotes About College

Quotes about: College

• [After my mother died, I had a feeling that was] not unlike the homesickness that always filled me for the first few days when I went to stay at my grandparents'' house, and even, I was stunned to discover, during the first few months of my freshman year at college. It was not really the home my mother had made that I yearned for. But I was sick in my soul for that greater meaning of home that we understand most purely when we are children, when it is a metaphor for all possible feelings of security, of safety, of what is predictable, gentle, and good in life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mother, Children, Home

• When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.

  Anna Quindlen

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "A Short Guide To A Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2010.

• Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Party, College

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Every Last One: A Novel”, p.76, Random House

• I went to a women's college. ... it was a little like learning to swim while holding on to the side of the pool; I didn't learn the arm movements until after I graduated, but by that time I was one hell of a kicker.

  Anna Quindlen

  Education, College, Swim

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.194, Ballantine Books

• Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.

  Anna Quindlen

  Fall, Kids, Gay

  Anna Quindlen (2004). “Loud and Clear”, p.90, Random House

• I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mom, Jobs, Dad

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I'll tell you the truth - I went to a women's college, Barnard, the most selective college for women in America today. If there's one thing I came out of Barnard with, because it was a women's college and a great institution of higher education, it was fearlessness.

  Anna Quindlen

  College, America, Today

  Source: www.pbs.org

• As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

  Anna Quindlen

  Father, Kids, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

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