Graduates Quotes · Page 6

All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.

— Donna Leon

Too many high-school graduates are reflexively going to college as it is, without a clue what they are doing there or how…

— Heather Mac Donald

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how…

— Derek Bok

Truly, I get high on oxygen, and once I graduate from that, what really fulfills me is doing what I love. That,…

— Debbi Fields

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until…

— Paula Poundstone

To get elected as a Democrat, it's hard to be from the city. It's hard to be a graduate of Duke University.

— Howard Fineman

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.

— Barney Ross

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life…

— Louisa May Alcott

An interesting thing happened in 1989, right as I was graduating: the stock market crashed and really changed the landscape of the…

— Matthew Barney

I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in…

— Chris Matthews

I feel like I'm a graduate of the Roger Corman School of Filmmaking. I went and visited Roger on the set of…

— Alex Stapleton

I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I…

— Anna Journey

Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to…

— Fred Rogers

I want to fully fund education, No Child Left Behind, special-needs education. And that's how we're going to be more competitive, by…

— John F. Kerry

I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good…

— Dorothy Moore

And my advice for college graduates is don't reflexively give money to your alma mater, something particular to Americans that I find…

— Malcolm Gladwell

You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate…

— Katherine Applegate

I was a 36C or D, and at 5' 1'', I knew that being a small person with big boobs standing in…

— Janeane Garofalo

I went to graduate film school at NYU, and at first I didn't get a degree, because I took a scholarship that…

— Jim Jarmusch

By leaning on companies, by leaning on infrastructure providers, by leaning on researchers, graduate students, post-docs, even undergrads, to look at the…

— Edward Snowden

When I was in graduate school at MIT I was trying to think about how to develop software and systems for farmers…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for…

— Phyllis McGinley

I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the…

— George Carlin

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.

— Anonymous

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

— Lolo Jones

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

— Jack Horner

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning.

— Natalie Goldberg

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in…

— Anonymous

I’ve held onto Ugg boots. I will never graduate to Crocs, but Ugg boots are always and forever. That’s my fashion stepchild.

— Johnny Weir

Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing…

— Antony Hewish

Through high school, college, graduate school and beyond, I had a number of relationships that were wonderful.

— Frederick Lenz

Yes. I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.

— Irwin Winkler

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the…

— Lee Kuan Yew

Be open and honest, but perceptive to your boss's situation. That's my advice to graduates worried about working with a new boss.

— Naomie Harris

You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

— Joan Rivers

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky…

— Sandra Lerner

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors…

— Miley Cyrus

Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone.

— Donalyn Miller

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing…

— Vernon L. Smith