College Oxford

Famous quotes containing the words college and/or oxford:

“here
to this college on the hill above Harlem
I am the only colored student in my class.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“Christianity as an organized religion has not always had a harmonious relationship with the family. Unlike Judaism, it kept almost no rituals that took place in private homes. The esteem that monasticism and priestly celibacy enjoyed implied a denigration of marriage and parenthood.”
—Beatrice Gottlieb, U.S. historian. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age, ch. 12, Oxford University Press (1993)