Harvard University Crimson

Famous quotes containing the words harvard university, harvard, university and/or crimson:

    “Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises very well, considering we never controlled him much.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    “The slime pool that the dog drowned in . . .
    A drunk vomiting up a teaspoon of bile . . .
    Washing the polio off the grapes when I was ten . . .
    A Harvard book bag in Rome . . .”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I was now at a university in New York, a professor of existential psychology with the not inconsiderable thesis that magic, dread, and the perception of death were the roots of motivation.”
    —Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

    “On her left breast
    A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
    I’ th’ bottom of a cowslip.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)