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I was educated at King's College, Taunton and went to the University of Cambridge in 1942.
— Antony Hewish
Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
— Zadie Smith
The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
— E. E. Cummings
What is the worth of anything,
But for the happiness 'twill bring? — Richard Owen Cambridge
But for the happiness 'twill bring? — Richard Owen Cambridge
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
— Robert Lacey
This place is so Cambridge," Susan said, "it gives me goose bumps." "Cambridge give you goose bumps?" I said to Hawk. "Hives," Hawk said.
— Robert B. Parker
At Cambridge, there was a completely unintimidating culture, and there were no class divisions among the students.
— Elizabeth Blackburn
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
— E. M. Forster
I was born in Cambridge but brought up in and around Winchester, in Hampshire. I've also lived in Hong Kong and America.
— Chris Geere
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
— A.A. Milne
No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.
— Sophie Hannah
Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge
Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
— Niall Ferguson
After returning from Cambridge in 1936, I did some work with J. M. Mioz on the oxidation of fatty acids in liver.
— Luis Federico Leloir
My first professional job was appearing in a disastrous theatre production of Oh, What a Lovely War in Leicester Rep, shortly after leaving Cambridge.
— Eric Idle
Inner beauty doesn't try to be seen, it's obvious to all that choose to look
— The Cambridge Counsellor
The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
— Samuel Butler
A good dose of hearty laugh strengthens mood, reduces anxiety or stress and keeps the entire nervous system balanced.
— Jessica Cambridge
Sister Georgina had studied at Cambridge or, as she put it, 'Not-the-one-in-Massachusetts-Cambridge-Universitythe-real-one-you-know-in-England.
— Terry Pratchett
I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
— Andrew Wiles
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about.
— Joan Robinson
predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.
— Morris Kline
I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.
— Hugh Laurie
In the fall of 1961, I went up to Clare College Cambridge to read Natural Sciences, with the intention of becoming a biochemist in the end.
— Tim Hunt
I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.
— Philip Kitcher
He returned to Cambridge feeling, at the ripe old age of twenty, that life was passing him by.
— Salman Rushdie
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner somewhere and become a Don or something.
— Stephen Fry
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
— Ada Cambridge
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
— Emma Donoghue
Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.
— Dharma Kumar
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
— Claire Tomalin
All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though.
— Richard Dawkins
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
— A.E. Housman
Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.
— John Ortberg
When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them ... And here I am, still at it.
— Ian McKellen
My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'
— Richard Ayoade
Duchess of Cambridge Due to Give Birth in July 5.82M
— Alain De Botton
Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
— Harry Carpenter
I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent.
— Peter Ackroyd
I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.
— Richard Dawkins
I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
— Anne Stevenson
Cambridge produces in abundance talents with the ability to please, but few with that greater ability to disregard whether they please or not.
— Michael Frayn