Category: Quotes About Graduation

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world. -Dick Cheney

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. -Irvine Welsh

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

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

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. -Robert Sternberg

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls. -Ed O'Neill

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

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.' -Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. -Herb Ritts

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. -Ted Nelson

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song. -Janelle Monae

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. -Al McGuire

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

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 went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. -Sara Paretsky

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. -Patina Miller

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' -Jimmy Carter

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. -Robert M. Hutchins

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

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. -Faith Hill

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