Graduates Quotes · Page 9

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

— Jon Stewart

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

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

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

— Elizabeth Lesser

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

— George Stigler

Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school…

— Ruben Hinojosa

Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure…

— Alex Garland

Our goal here in New York is to ensure that every child who graduates high school is ready to start a career…

— Michael Bloomberg

On graduating from school, a studious young man who would withstand the tedium and monotony of his duties has no choice but…

— Charles-Augustin de Coulomb

There have been times I wanted to cry on interview, but it hasn't been because that's what they're trying to conjure. No.…

— John Flansburgh

What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four…

— Bill Gates

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have…

— Leigh Steinberg

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

Harvard graduates just cannot shake the idea that they know better than everyone else what's best for us and that they're capable…

— Ann Coulter

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

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in…

— Kehinde Wiley

I went to the graduation the other night of my first great grandchild - he's 21 or 22; and right at the…

— Louis Farrakhan

There's this huge controversy over the fact that President Bush apparently received credit for National Guard service in Alabama in '72 and…

— Jay Leno

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned…

— Ken Buck

Well, that's why I really love Diego Della Valle, because he's crazy. Instead of going out to find a top business school…

— Ines de La Fressange

Give me an Army of West Point graduates and I'll win a battle... Give me a handful of Texas Aggies and I'll…

— Anonymous

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

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

— Samuel Barnett

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 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

Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.

— Ezekiel Emanuel

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

I went to NYU graduate film school and met Pam [Romanowsky], and after doing a few things with her I thought she…

— James Franco

I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of…

— Abraham Verghese

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent…

— Milan Kundera