Graduates Quotes · Page 2

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

— Margaret Heffernan

If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

— Nora Roberts

Most MBA graduates are hungry for intellectual glamour.

— Ravi Subramanian

Allow yourself to graduate, every five years.

— Cathy Guisewite

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

— Joe Theismann

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

— Carmelo Anthony

My advice to graduates is to stay positive. Life is short, and you'll be dead soon.

— Greg Giraldo

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

— Steve Jobs

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

— Robert M. Hutchins

I teach a lot - I teach at the UCLA and USC graduate film programs - and a lot of those projects…

— James Franco

I am not some preaching farmer with a book under my arm; I am a graduate of Harvard College.

— Samuel Parris

When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.

— Alan Perlis

I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all…

— Dalton Trumbo

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

— Anonymous

We start to try to live in tomorrow and the future, and start to think about what we build today as a…

— Hosain Rahman

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

— Daniela Hantuchova

A college should feel alarmed rather than pleased if it graduates nothing but good citizens. For when the body politic is composed…

— George Boas

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

— Jonathan Haidt

Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties…

— Gary Shteyngart

The cynical, caustic, acid-tongued New York drama critic Addison De Witt introduces his protege/date of the moment, a bimbo date and so-called…

— George Sanders

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

— Alison Gopnik

You have to be really tenacious. You have to keep at it. There are many roads to get there. If you can…

— Louis C. K

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

— Garth Greenwell

I didn't try out for bands when I was younger. I got into guitars intensely a couple of years into playing so…

— John Petrucci

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

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

— Frank Pittman

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

The promise of learning is a delusion… Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process…

— John Ashbery

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

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

— Greg Weisman

“Between now and when we graduate next year there are at least ten weeks' holiday and five random public holidays. There's email…

— Melina Marchetta

You will find the key to success under the alarm clock.

— Benjamin Franklin

I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.

— Taslima Nasrin

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.

— Robertson Davies

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

— Clark Terry

When you leave here, don't forget why you came. ( to college graduates)

— Adlai E Stevenson

The awkward moment when someone graduates and their speech is

— Anonymous

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

— Christopher Bollen

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

— Louisa May Alcott