University Identity Quotes

A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance.

I get to actually say I am a Stanford man. There's no if, ands, or buts about it.

Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

Michigan is a proud university.

What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other.

UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.