Vanderbilt Quotes

• The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Freedom, Responsibility

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• Going to Vanderbilt did a lot of things for me, and one of the things it cured me of was the need to follow college football.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Football, College, Needs

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• It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Evil, Ugly, Tycoons

  Source: sensitiveskinmagazine.com

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• Calvin Klein and Gloria Vanderbilt don't wear clothes with your name on it, so why should you wear their name?

  Mr. T

  Names, Clothes, Should

  "Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!". Family, Music/Video, www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• Another [book on Matthew] is Amy-Jill Levine, who is a Jewish woman who teaches New Testament at the Vanderbilt School of Religion. It's a group of essays by mostly womanly scholars looking at Matthew's gospel through feminists' eyes - very exciting. It opens up all sorts of things that I've never thought about.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Eye, School

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who.

  Christy Turlington

  Fashion, Jeans, Magazines

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I completely trust Gloria Vanderbilt. I have always found her very honest.

  Michael Lindsay-Hogg

  Honest, Found, Gloria

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

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• Although I performed in high school, my first real experience with theater was performing with a student-run organization at Vanderbilt University called The Original Cast where I learned that I loved performing and especially loved theater people.

  Nancy Allen

  Running, Real, School

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• The bell of public opinion is today making the Morgan-Rockefeller-Vanderbilt class jump. Nor are the strongest of our corporations immune. The railroads have had to jump pretty lively, and certain gigantic industrial combinations are also being put through their paces.

  B. C. Forbes

  Class, Public Opinion, Railroads

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• When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Keys, People, Looks

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• When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Business, America

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• My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

  Thomas Peterffy

  Educational, School, America

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• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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• Don't worry,don't worry.Look at the Astors and the Vanderbilts,all those big society people.They were the worst thieves-and now look at them.It's just a matter of time.

  Meyer Lansky

  People, Worry, Thieves

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps Vanderbilt's most important role in the interest of our free society is to give the world educated men and women of character, possessing a fundamental integrity that affects both their thoughts and their actions.

  Joe B Wyatt

  Integrity, Character, Men

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• I want to be with you as much as possible, Ronnie. You're smart and funny and you're honest. I trust you. I trust us. Yeah, I'm leaving and you're going back home. But neither of those things changes the way I feel about you. And my feelings aren't going to change simply because I'm going to Vanderbilt. I love you more than I've ever loved anyone.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Smart, I Love You More, Home

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• As I sat in the hot, salty water, I thought, 'No wonder Mr. Bubble always gives me a urinary tract infection and hives.' Mr. Bubble was for common people. Mr. Bubble was for my so-called brother, their true child. I was a Vanderbilt. I should bathe in condiments and seasonings.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Brother, Children, People

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “Magical Thinking”, p.23, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth just what can be delivered in redemption of it, and no more. We all understand that the notes of the Astors, and Stewarts, and Vanderbilts, though issued by millions, and tens of millions, are really worth their nominal values.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Redemption, Paper

  Lysander Spooner (1873). “A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District”, p.18

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• My friend Anderson Cooper is the scion of one of America's great shipping and railroad families, the Vanderbilts.

  Kathy Griffin

  America, Railroads, Shipping

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