Kevin Whately Quotes

For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town.

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education.

Lexington is home to the University of Kentucky, where my husband and I teach, as well as to Transylvania University, the oldest college established west of the Allegheny Mountains, and several multinational companies; people come and go from all over the world.

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

I live part of the time in Oxford, and I love it.

There is just so much beauty in Cambridge. It's wonderful.

Boston's such a unique city. I feel like 50 percent of its DNA turns over every semester.

To the UCLA students, alumni, and fans, I appreciate all of your unwavering support.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge.

Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Nothing so good as a university education, nor worse than a university without its education.

He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.

I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether America is meant for him. I really worry about that.

I loved to teach, I loved my students, but I wanted to find a community. I prayed: "Lord, show me where you want me to go. I will go wanted wherever you call me - but please be clear."

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

I was 100 percent sure when I left university that I was going to be a painter.