Graduates Quotes · Page 8

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

— Arne Duncan

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

— Samuel Barnett

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

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

— Taslima Nasrin

Bankruptcy laws allow companies to smoothly reorganize, but not college graduates burdened by student loans.

— Robert Reich

The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Samuel Alito

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

— Steve Blake

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

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go…

— Gordon Brown

Law graduates have always ended up in business, government, journalism and other fields. Law schools could do more to build these subjects…

— Adam Cohen

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

— Matthew Barney

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't…

— Dr. Seuss

I've had this unbelievable amount of good fortune and I'm just so thankful for it. But at the same time I feel…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be…

— Camille Paglia

In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the…

— George Gilder

I am quite international. My background, born in Turkey. My family is a Jewish family from Iran, so I went from Turkey…

— Nouriel Roubini

I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I…

— Billy Joel

The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence…

— Noam Chomsky

Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc.…

— Rob Nixon

What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of…

— Chinua Achebe

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.…

— Christopher Hitchens

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

— Zach Braff

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

— Greg Giraldo

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

— Fidel Castro

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

— Louisa May Alcott

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

— Henny Youngman

The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Donna Leon

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

— Erma Bombeck

61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.

— Jon Stewart

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get…

— Noam Chomsky

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

— Miles Teller

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

— Levon Helm

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would…

— Gloria Steinem

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, they do with crippled minds.

— Malcolm X

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting…

— Ryan Lewis

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

— Ellen DeGeneres