102 private quotes tagged graduation

“I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.” — Richard King

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“It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.” — Bobby Scott

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“I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.” — Carol P. Christ

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“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.” — Clive James

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“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

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“I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.” — Scott Hamilton

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“It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.” — Norman Cousins

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“I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.” — John Keegan

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“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

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“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

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“When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.” — Gloria Stuart

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“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

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“College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.” — Ruby Wax

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

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“I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.” — Jim Jarmusch

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“Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.” — Daniel Greenberg

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“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.” — Emma Bonino

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“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

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“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.” — Neil Simon

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“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

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“In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.” — Simon Newcomb

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“I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.” — Parker Stevenson

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

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

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“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

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