Top 160 Princeton Quotes & Sayings

I went to Illinois. Most people think I went to Princeton or something. But I was never a diligent student.

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

I think the whole system of education would change if I were in charge and had the ability to make changes. I don't think I would keep Princeton exactly being Princeton.

God invented space so that not everything had to happen in Princeton.

I went to Princeton specifically to study physics.

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

The strength of my Princeton teams has always been attitude, intelligence and discipline.

As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

In 1992, when I was 16, I moved to the United States to start working on my Ph.D. at Princeton University in New Jersey.

In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree.

I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

I was a history major at Princeton University; I took exams in war and diplomacy, and I find those things very fascinating.

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton.

What's Princeton doing today?

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.

Bottom line: nothing of note happened when I was a youngster, really. I went to Princeton, which is where I met my wife.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

I acted all the way up until Princeton. It was just one of my favorite extracurricular activities. Then I got to Princeton and had a really conservative vibe. All my friends were planning on law school, med school, or Wall Street, and suddenly acting seem like a really risky proposition.

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

I can't tell you the difference between the triangle offense and the Princeton offense.

I remember failing my Princeton interview. My mom wanted me to apply because ever since I was a kid she had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, but it was just not happening.

I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton.

My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.

And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find extraordinary. Take Princeton, for example - it has more money on a per capita basis than any educational institution in the history of educational institutions. There is no scenario where it can spend all the money its endowment generates every year. If there is anyone who gives a single dollar to Princeton, they have completely lost their mind. I will say that without reservation.

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

I used to rent a house in Princeton, New Jersey, and whenever people came to visit me, I would drive them past Albert Einstein's house, which is the most ordinary house in Princeton - a house, let me assure you, that now a salesman wouldn't live in. I'd always say, "That was Albert Einstein's house." And they'd say, "What do you mean? Why would Albert Einstein live in a little house like that?" And I'd always say to people, "Because he didn't care!"

I left Princeton, but I graduated Harvard, in 1952.

I was a professor at Princeton University. And, in that capacity, I studied for many years the role of financial crisis in the economy.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.

I've lectured at Stanford, Princeton & Harvard to name a few... I just might be smarter than YOU

I needed to temper (my dad's) enthusiasm a bit (about attending Princeton), and so I announced that I would be majoring in patricide...My mom was actually jealous.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.

I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.

When Princeton plays Harvard, I'm rooting for Princeton, of course. Go Tigers!

In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

I got what I needed out of Princeton in 1 year, and I didn't think it was useful.

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

I've been studying mutual funds since 1949, when I began researching my senior thesis at Princeton University.

Always make the choice to learn. What Princeton taught me was whatever mess you are studying, pull a thread with great persistence 'til you have clarity of thought. Princeton taught me how to solve a problem. How to think - that's what we pull out of this place.

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

I had done some work on index funds in my senior thesis at Princeton in 1951.

I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

Those three years ended with June 1933. At that time I left Princeton, having submitted my Ph.D. thesis.

Princeton is no longer a thing for Princeton men to please themselves with. Princeton is a thing with which Princeton men must satisfy the country.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

You know I went to the Hunt Schools, a boarding school in Princeton, and I've heard so many Rhodes scholars have gone to the Ivys.