Amherst Quotes

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

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

I started acting when I was at Amherst my junior year, and my lacrosse career kind of started to flop sideways after that.

I differ from most of you on most of the issues of life, and I’m going to keep it up.

I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each other. But he won’t give us away, Lucas. He’s even willing to help us see each other, as long as we help him with Charity.” “What, like, a fund-raiser or something?” I’d forgotten he didn’t know her name. “The vampire girl in Amherst.” “Wait—Charity? That’s her name? You were able to figure out who she is.” He smiled so proudly that all the tension of the moment instantly melted. “I fell in love with a genius.

I played football and lacrosse in high school. They wanted me to play football at Amherst, which I did not do because my schedule was full enough as it was. But over the course of my student days, I played pretty much every sport out there.

I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy.

Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.