Graduation Quotes
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.
Tobias Wolff
It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
Robert M. Hutchins
The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Emma Bonino
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
Junior Seau
I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.
Marc Garneau
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.
Jillian Bach
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Henny Youngman
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
Clive James
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
Tom Brokaw
I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
Claire Danes
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.
Fiona Apple
Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.
Alexis Herman
My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Jim Evans
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.
Ruben Hinojosa
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
David Eddings
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
Maureen Forrester
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.
Robert Orben
Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
Conan O'Brien
Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.
Ruben Hinojosa
Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
James Tobin
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
Olivia Wilde
My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.
George Weinberg
North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
Bobby Heenan
It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Bobby Scott