Graduation Quotes

29. After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

^{Donna Rice}

30. I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

^{Marc Garneau}

31. One half who graduate from college never read another book.- Graduation Quotes

^{G. M. Trevelyan}

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

^{Gordon Brown}

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

^{Clive James}

34. It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.

^{Bobby Scott}

35. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.- Graduation Quotes

^{Ray Bradbury}

36. Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.

^{Jon Secada}

37. You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that’s wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that’s worse. This is a day.

^{Andy Samberg}

40. The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

^{Martha Reeves}

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

^{Robert M. Hutchins}

42. 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.- Graduation Quotes

^{Carol P. Christ}

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

^{M. H. Abrams}

44. For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life – the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.- Graduation Quotes

^{Alexa Von Tobel}

45. North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

^{Bobby Heenan}

46. I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

^{Frederick Reines}

47. Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor’s appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

^{Sloane Crosley}

48. 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.- Graduation Quotes

^{Simon Newcomb}

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

^{Ruby Wax}

50. I have actually five honorary degrees.- Graduation Quotes

^{Katherine Dunham}

51. 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}

52. So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

^{Ted Nelson}

53. 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}

54. I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

^{Anne Lamott}

57. Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

^{James Tobin}

58. I did get a degree in special education.

^{Clay Aiken}

61. 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}

62. 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}

67. I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.- Graduation Quotes

^{Sara Paretsky}

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

^{Ted Nelson}

76. I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.

^{Peter Gallagher}

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

^{Emma Bonino}

78. 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}

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

^{Douglas Wilson}

80. 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.- Graduation Quotes

^{Laurie Anderson}

81. For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.- Graduation Quotes

^{Miguel de Cervantes}

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

^{Christina Aguilera}

85. I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.- Graduation Quotes

^{Mark Kennedy}

86. It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

^{Leigh Steinberg}

87. Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

^{Herb Ritts}

88. 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.’- Graduation Quotes

^{Alex Guarnaschelli}

89. I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.- Graduation Quotes

^{Richard King}

90. I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

^{James Green Somerville}

91. 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.

^{Joe Baca}

92. 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}

93. 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}

94. 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}

95. I graduated from the University of Whatever.- Graduation Quotes

^{Dana Snyder}

96. 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}

97. 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}

98. When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master’s and I didn’t do it by missing school.

^{Angela Bassett}

99. I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It’s what you learn, what you think. That’s all that counts.

^{Maya Lin}

100. 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.

^{Tony Hillerman}

111. I’ve done photo shoots for fashion brand catalogues and participated in graduation shows for fashion colleges.

^{HoYeon Jung}

112. The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans’ health.- Graduation Quotes

^{Campbell Brown}