"A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard."

-- Herman Melville

#College Quotes #Yale Quotes #Whales Quotes

“Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever.”
“I'm not a cheerleader. I'm not trying to pretend to be sweet and then come out and be bad. This is who I am.”
“... I could have said something profound, but you would have forgotten it in 15 minutes - which is the afterlife of a graduation speech.”
“I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.”
“You believe you can make it every year. You don't think it's going to end. But the reality is that most teams, you end up in, you end up out.”
“It's just that it's mind-boggling to me how many people I encounter every day who are struggling to subsist on a diet of bad advice about fake solutions to nonexistent problems.”

Source : "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2010.
“You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.”
“England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.”

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