I have actually five honorary degrees.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular…

— Neil Simon

My rule on honorary degrees has always been to have one more than Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Bill Cosby no longer on Temple University's board. His name has been removed from various college scholarships and buildings. Two dozen colleges and universities…

— Melissa Harris-Perry

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college…

— Samuel Alito

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher…

— Donna Shalala

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

— Ruth Ann Minner

I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want…

— Bill Gates

But I decided I wanted more education and I had to make a choice between starting law school, which was interesting to me, and…

— Daniel J. Evans

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country,…

— Abraham Verghese

My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

— Hill Harper

The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up…

— Katherine Dunham

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I was lucky to get to Oxford. I am now an honorary fellow of my old college, which is nice, particularly for a colonial…

— Justin Cartwright

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

— Karel Capek