Graduation Quotes

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.