Graduates Quotes · Page 7

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

Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that,…

— Maureen Johnson

Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read.

— Samuel West

Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.

— John Green

When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

— Bill Cosby

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system.

— Lawrence Wright

I think if I learned anything in graduate school, it was to not drool around other actors who would normally make you…

— Peter Jacobson

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

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as…

— Derek Bok

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'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

“Up until 1900, more than half the graduates from women's colleges remained single, many of them carving out careers in new fields…

— Stephanie Coontz

Dogs want to be people. That's what their lives are about. They don't like being a dog. They're with people all the…

— Jerry Seinfeld

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good…

— Steve Spurrier

Andrew Hacker argues that algebra and trigonometry and calculus are subjects that almost nobody used after they graduate, and so why should…

— Anya Kamenetz

One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take…

— Vandana Shiva

I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school.…

— Haruki Murakami

Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to…

— James Stone

Brit Marling smartest girl I've ever met. Hands down. Brilliant. Her story? She had a graduate degree from a top tier school…

— Billy Magnussen

The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone:…

— Augusten Burroughs

I teach a graduate photo seminar at Yale, and I sometimes feel so overwhelmed by the task the students set before themselves…

— Laurie Simmons

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be…

— David Cassidy

People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is…

— Billy Graham

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

— Debbi Fields

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

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

— Paul Halmos

My seminar is for highschool students, decent undergraduates, bright graduates, and outstanding professors.

— Israel Gelfand

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue…

— Jillian Bach

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

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again...it's all good.

— Chad Michael Murray

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

— Douglas Wilson

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

— Jack Horner

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

— Lolo Jones

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

— Newell Dwight Hillis

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

— David Berg

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

— Natalie Goldberg

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

— Anonymous

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

— Barney Ross

All of my contemporaries in L.A. are all graduates of either Yale, Julliard, Trinity. The best of the bunch come from that.

— Tony Todd