List of University of Minnesota People

This is a list of notable people associated with the University of Minnesota.

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, university and/or people:

    Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.
    Janet Frame (b. 1924)

    Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
    Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

    If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)