We know that we are often judged by the company we keep. We know how influential classmates, friends, and other peer groups can be. If any of our companions are prone to be unrighteous in their living, we are better off seeking new associations immediately.

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.

- Michelle Obama

Because I was from the Midwest and untrained, I was completely open and ready to try anything. Many of my classmates were cynical and jaded; some already had conservatory training, and they were there simply to get that Yale stamp of approval, which they saw as a career stepping-stone.

- Laila Robins

I come from a very close class. I lucked out because drama schools are often very competitive... I have fourteen classmates.

- Lupita Nyong'o

I moved back to Boston and joined some of my Harvard classmates at Bain & Co. I quickly realized I enjoyed business.

- Kenneth Chenault

My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.

- John Thorn

If you film a little boy going to school, the big event in that boy's day and all the classmates' and teachers' day is you being there filming, not the school.

- Joshua Oppenheimer

I am an only child and home-schooled, so I have no siblings or classmates.

- Jonathan Krohn

I was the tallest guy in the school, and I was very conscious of being larger than anybody - classmates and teachers.

- James Arness

Most guys in high school wore clothes seen only by their classmates. I wore clothes seen by the world.

- Justin Timberlake

I went to private school for two years, then Aptos Middle School, and I finished at McAteer. Several of my classmates at those schools are my friends today.

- Aisha Tyler

My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

- Ian Ziering

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

- George A. Romero

I was somewhat out of place among my classmates; I could not be as bohemian as they were.

- Erno Rubik

My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself.

- Emo Philips

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet to gossip about each other, and thought it might be nifty to develop a series of books about an anonymous high-school blogger who gossips about her classmates. The concept was passed on to me.

- Cecily von Ziegesar

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

- Bennett Cerf

I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I was very young for my school year and when puberty kicked in for my classmates I got left behind.

- Ben Barnes

When I was in high school, I didn't feel like I had to pile on the APs in order to look good to colleges. High-achieving classmates didn't use private tutors.

- Alexandra Robbins

In high school ethics, they went around and asked what everyone thought their classmates were qualified to do. For me, everyone said actress. But to me it was very much 'if it happens, it happens.'

- Amanda Schull