Top 147 Berkeley Quotes & Sayings

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

I was born in Berkeley, California, in 1976, and grew up in and around Oakland and the Bay Area.

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

My parents are Italian and British. They live in Berkeley now - we all moved there four years ago.

I have a bunch of friends at the University of California at Berkeley, so that's always a fun drive. Last summer I took five road trips to Berkeley. It's so beautiful. I like to take the scenic routes and make stops along the way.

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!

I want to go to Berkeley and major in music.

I finished my Ph.D. at Berkeley in November 1987 and took a position as an independent fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in January 1988.

In Berkeley, we built the garden and a kitchen classroom. We've been working on it for 12 years. We've learned a lot from it. If kids grow it and cook it, they eat it.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

I love Berkeley.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school.

Immediately after school, I did a lot of regional theater. I was in Berkeley and Princeton and Minneapolis and all over the country doing wonderful plays for the local audiences.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the animal creation.

When I first started teaching at Berkeley in 1958, I could not announce that I was gay to anybody, though probably quite a few of my fellow teachers knew.

If you are bored with Berkeley and San Francisco, you are bored with life.

Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.

I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

Berkeley had a liberal element in the student body who tended to be quite active. I think that's in general a feature of intellectually active places.

I studied music for my first two years in college. When I went to UC Berkeley, I failed the admission requirements to get into the music school there, so I studied communications and public policy, which actually were a greater engine for my career than a musical education would have been. If I had gotten into the music department at Berkeley, I'd probably be a timpanist in an orchestra right now.

Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

The funniest thing is not who influenced me positively, but who influenced me negatively. I had such an aversion to what Busby Berkeley did; in my early formative years, I thought it was terrible. Now, I think it's wonderful. But then, I wanted to do anything but what Busby Berkeley did.

I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.

At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to U.C. Davis because, to them, Berkeley was too radical.

I went to UC Berkeley for college, and it was during the period when the whole punk movement was happening.

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

One [New York] eatery is a remodeled diner that looks like what Busby Berkeley would have done if only he hadn't had the money.

In the mid-'60s in Berkeley, the theory of measure spaces of economic agents became one of my main interests.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

You can't help your background or innate talents. But anyone can graft: that's why there are success stories like that of Tony Pidgley, the founder and owner of Berkeley Homes.

I got my Equity Card from Berkeley Rep when I was 22 years old. I was cast in David Saar's 'The Yellow Boat.'

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.

Democrats have chosen not to defend the Marine Corps, but to pander to anti-war protesters and Berkeley officials that are actively trying to impede military recruitment.

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

I remember the excitement of finding a great pancake recipe in 'Gourmet.' It felt as if it were mine. And it was Berkeley, of course - everybody cooked together. Cooking is what one did.

For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic.

I was in Berkeley when the food energy in America was in Berkeley. Then it moved to Los Angeles, and I went to Los Angeles. It moved to New York, and I went there.

I started my career as a liberal arts major from Berkeley, wrote about enterprise IT for a few years, then followed my passion for the digital narrative into graduate school as well (also at Berkeley, the Oxford of the West or, perhaps, the Harvard - sorry Stanford!). My first project out of grad school was 'Wired' magazine.

Maximum Rocknroll didn't have a map section. How was I supposed to know that Berkeley was not a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Every group needs a comedian. A comic who is politically incorrect at the Berkeley campus might slay them at a Klan rally.

The great children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes marks her 90th birthday by appearing as Michael Berkeley's guest in 'Private Passions'.

My mother came from India to go to the University of California, Berkeley.

If it weren't for people like the people in Berkeley, standing up for what they believe, we'd be living under Hitler.

I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school

Sometimes I can think of nothing more blissful than going to Berkeley and reading Byron for three years.

I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.

I was an American Studies student at Berkeley as an undergraduate, and pretty much as a graduate student, too.

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world.

I went from Lubbock, Texas, to Berkeley, California. That's enough said.

At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

After receiving my Ph.D. in 1957, I worked at Columbia and then from 1959 to 1966 at Berkeley.

Therein lies the rub of a place like Berkeley Bowl. You get seduced by an 11-pound apple that turns out to be a fake watermelon with an anus.