Graduates Quotes · Page 5

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

— Oprah Winfrey

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

— John Piper

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering…

— John Doerr

At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and…

— Paul A. Freund

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

— Rachel Maddow

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

— Gordon Brown

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another…

— Sydney Pollack

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

— David Miliband

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and…

— Betty Friedan

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply…

— Margaret Atwood

I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I…

— Colin Powell

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that…

— Jill Lepore

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have…

— Andrew Aydin

When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast…

— Anonymous

And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I…

— Bob Schieffer

I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for…

— Carol Gilligan

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate…

— Martin Burns

There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have…

— Matthew Quick

I remember my days as a graduate student at Stanford, within any leading university, a very active Israeli support, for Israel, Jews…

— Ehud Barak

In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today…

— Mary Catherine Bateson

When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both…

— Kenneth G. Wilson

The second book, which was probably more from a professional standpoint - when I read Junot Díaz's Drown, I was like, Oh…

— Matt de la Pena

Parents can fail to cheer your successes as wildly as you expected, pointing out that you are sharing your Nobel Prize with…

— Frank Pittman

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina…

— Elizabeth Edwards

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

— Oriana Fallaci

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself.

— Vincent Massey

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school…

— David Livermore

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was…

— Christian Slater

I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

— Taylor Swift

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a…

— Michael Dell

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a…

— Edward Abbey

People will frighten you about a graduation…They use words you don't hear often.

— Bill Cosby

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in…

— Tommy Lasorda

I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

— Charles Baxter

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

— Ed Koch

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.

— Donald Ray Pollock

We're so grateful that we're able to provide this opportunity for our current and past graduates.

— David Branch

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.

— Susan Choi

Most hackers graduate from Unix and Linux platforms. They know them intimately. They don't try to exploit them

— Dean Stockwell