Freshman Quotes - Page 4

• That happened when I was a freshman in high school. The guy reading it [the Bible] was dating my older sister. I thought he was the cutest thing that had ever happened in Nashville. He was nine years older than me and I thought, 'Mimi, I hate to do this to you, but I'm going to steal this guy away.' So I went to this Bible study thinking I was going to make this guy fall in love with me. I was fourteen. Hey, you know. But I was so overwhelmed by what they were talking about at this Bible study. I became a very serious, committed Christian.

  Amy Grant

  Christian, Falling In Love, Hate

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• I really started getting my body ready when I was a freshman in high school. I had just been skating so much, and just started getting so annoyed with leg hair and arm hair, because I was falling so much when I was learning. So I would get scabs on my legs, and the hair would get caught in it. It just became a nuisance. And from that point on, I continued to shave my arms and legs and tried to stay sleek.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Fall, School, Hair

  "Ryan Sheckler Talks Manscaping". Interview with Lucas Wisenthal, www.askmen.com.

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• Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

  Thomas Hughes

  Children, Men, Heaven

  Thomas Hughes (1864). “Tom Brown at Oxford”, p.156

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• I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument about the truthfulness of fiction; still, as writers turn away from the industrious villages of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy, I learn less and less from them that helps me to ponder my life. In time, I found myself agreeing with the course evaluations written by my testier freshman students:'All the literature we read this term was depressing.' How naive. How sane.

  Mary Rose O'Reilley

  Depressing, Gone, Fiction

  Mary Rose O'Reilley (2014). “The Barn at the End of the World: The Apprenticeship of a Quaker, Buddhist Shepherd”, p.14, Milkweed Editions

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• I was 18 years old when I did the pilot [of Hi Honey, I'm Home], so I was a freshman at NYU, and it was one of my first professional auditions in New York City. And I somehow booked the job. I have no idea how.

  Julie Benz

  Jobs, New York, Home

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me that I've never forgotten. He used his extensive knowledge of art history to illustrate the development of Western culture and politics.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Art, Years, Civilization

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• [Buckminster Fuller ] never got past his freshman year [in Harvard], because the guy was an insane womanizer and he did parties every night, never studied anything, never took a note, didn't care about anything and just had a blast. So they said, "We gotta let you go. You get zeros all the time." Today it wouldn't even matter, because they don't care if you can read.

  Paul Laffoley

  Party, Past, Night

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• The greatest finish line for me was finishing college - it was a pact I made with my mother, during a time when she fell ill. That happened during my Freshman year, and unfortunately she never saw me compete in the Olympics. But she really wanted me to finish college, because she never finished Junior High.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Mother, College, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• As a freshman at Miami I started of as a reliever for the first few games and quickly moved into the rotation as the Saturday started for conference play. That year was very successful, I was name a Freshman All-American as well as 2nd Team All-MAC.

  Graham Taylor

  Team, Successful, Names

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• Tom [Hentoff] - it started when he was the editor of the paper at Wesleyan and the - members of the staff. This was the first wave of political correctness. The editors of the staff members came and said he must - he must, from now on, stop using `freshmen' and - in-as part of the policy of the paper. It had to be `freshperson.' Therefore, you don't - you're not discriminating against males or females. They were very fervent about that, and he was equally fervent about not politicizing language. So until he left, `freshmen' stayed.

  Nat Hentoff

  Editors, Political, Males

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• We were very excited and we brought speakers in – then it so happened that there was a marine recruiter in the center of campus and one of our brothers, one SDS person put up a sign with a quote from the Nuremberg trial and an arrow point at the marine recruiter, saying, "This man is a war criminal." My younger brother and I, he was freshman and I was a sophomore, got caught up in the debates that were swirling around the center of campus and the young Trotskyists had put out a fact sheet on Vietnam that was phenomenal.

  Bill Ayers

  Brother, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• People build continuity into their life: Places, friends and goals. We go to work on Monday with plans for Friday night, enroll as freshmen intending to be seniors and save money for retirement. We try to control what comes next and shape it to meet our will.

  Nathaniel Fick

  Senior, Friday, Monday

  Nathaniel Fick (2006). “One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.

  Chris Baio

  Years, Library, Different

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• My baseball career ended in college.I played on the freshman team, but was becoming more drawn to intellectualism than athleticism, and so I gave up baseball, and it was perfect timing because baseball was going to give up me very soon.

  Donald Trump

  Baseball, Giving Up, Team

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I spent the four years I was an undergraduate working on the beach. And it wasn't because I was lazy; it was because my freshman class would go to a hundred different employers and wouldn't get a nibble.

  Paul Samuelson

  Beach, Years, Class

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• My freshman year of high school was just awkwardness all around.

  Molly Tarlov

  School, Years, Awkwardness

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• There are jobs here in Baltimore, but the problem is we don't have skilled people. Like the Port Covington initiative - that's 20 years out. I instituted initiatives as mayor that called for equities for minorities, increase minority opportunities, training. It's a good model to duplicate. Everybody doesn't want to go to college. A lot of our vocational programs don't have the latest technology. Students should begin freshman year in high school working on a plan for graduation - either going into an apprenticeship or college.

  Sheila Dixon

  School, Technology, Opportunity

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• At a university they had the freshman class make the same predictions that some of the well-known psychics do every year, and they found the freshman class did better

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Class, Years

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• I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

  Edwin Land

  Dream, Believe, Greatness

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• My freshman English professor at Kent State University in 1984 told me I was a good writer, and she loved all the silly pictures I drew in my notebook. She said I should try writing children's books, and so I did.

  Dav Pilkey

  Notebook, Children, Silly

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• She told her therapist it reminded her of coming home the summer after her freshman year at Rutgers, stepping back into the warm bath of family and friends, loving it for a week or two, and then feeling trapped, dying to return to school, missing her roommates and her cute new boyfriend, the classes and the parties and the giggly talks before bed, understanding for the first time that that was her real life now, that this, despite everything she'd ever loved about it, was finished for good.

  Tom Perrotta

  Cute, Summer, Real

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• Michael, if you can't pass, you can't play. - Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Years, Play

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• For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet we had no good idea of our goal. Without knowing what a real race was like, I couldn't judge whether it was worth all the preparation, but having put in so much time already, how could we back out? Quite a few Freshman did manage to back out. After Christmas several, when freed from faily practice, decided that they liked not feeling tired all the time. Most of them vanished without a word.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Real, Tired, Vacation

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• I never really loved school through junior high, but then I started running track my freshman year, and I was just like, 'Wow, this is cool!

  Regina King

  Running, School, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

  Jay Leno

  Interesting, Figures, Millionaire

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