"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard."

Family, Brother, Thought, Guidance, University

27

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard."

Exlpore more Family quotes

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Family, Mothers, Nations

"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Family, Mother, Center, Surrounds

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Mother, Story, Beginning, Life

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Family, Support, Love, Caring

"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

Anne Lamott, American Author

Family, Forgiveness, Training, Life

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Family, Children, Deeds

"Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of bastard lies to his own mother?"

John Green, American Author

Family, Honesty, Respect, Truth

"When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood."

Georg Trakl, Austrian Poet

Family, Childhood, Sweetness

"From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business."

Richelle Mead, American Author

Family, Time, Problem, Business

"Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other."

Joseph Joubert, French Writer

Family, Love, Father, Fear

Explore more quotes by Joseph E. Stiglitz

"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."

Information

"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."

Education

"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."

Justice

"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."

Wisdom

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

Development

"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."

Work

"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."

Education

"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."

Action

"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."

Policy

"I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely."

Family