Graduate school Quotes

“Graduate school introduces student to extensive knowledge search.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Getting into graduate school was pure luck.

— Paul G. Tremblay

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

— Emily Yoffe

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

— Howard G. Hendricks

Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

— Margaret Heffernan

“I am still enjoying the success.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In some ways I've gone to Cash and Carter graduate school.

— John Carter Cash

Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

— Clark Terry

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

— Christopher Bollen

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its…

— Ruth Westheimer

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.

— Tom Freston

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

— Robert Fulghum

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

— Elizabeth Edwards

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

— John Piper

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

— Ted Nelson

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the…

— Marilynne Robinson

“I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship,…

— Lailah Gifty Akita

When I finished graduate school, the first George Bush was president, and I really wanted to get out of the country. We'd…

— Lily King

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and…

— Mark Kelly

I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I…

— Jonathan Haidt

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate…

— Alison Gopnik

Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of…

— Anonymous

I went back to graduate school because I wanted to avoid being a professional, to try to piece together a life that…

— Garth Greenwell

“Go and learn about blockchain instead of going to college. You'll gain a whole lot of valuable information that would change your…

— Olawale daniel

I grew up in Memphis, Tennessee; I went to college in New Orleans before moving to New York City for graduate school.…

— Bryant Terry

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of…

— Susan Minot

“...I'm worried I will leave grad school and no longer be able to speak English. I know this woman in grad school,…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into…

— Peter Guber

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really…

— Maxine Kumin

When I got out of college I worked for DC comics. I worked on staff there and I also freelanced for them…

— Greg Weisman

Sometimes Joyce is hilarious. I read Finnegans Wake after graduate school and I had the great good fortune of reading it without…

— Toni Morrison

I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and…

— Greta Gerwig

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a…

— Billy Collins

“What I have said about the newspapers and the movies applies equally to the radio, to television, and even to bookselling. Thus…

— Norbert Wiener

When I started graduate school we did this publishing class where we learned about submitting and read interviews with editors from different…

— Donald Ray Pollock

In a lot of ways, work was my graduate school.

— Christopher Bollen

“If you are still breathing, don not stop learning.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning.

— Jennifer Love Hewitt