110 Quotes Regarding Graduation


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!
R. Lee Ermey

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
Carol Burnett

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have actually five honorary degrees.
Katherine Dunham

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

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

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
Patrick J. Kennedy

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.
Laurie Anderson

I did get a degree in special education.
Clay Aiken

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

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

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

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

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

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