Best Graduate Proverbs
372 Graduate quotes by 323 unique authors
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The truth is when I went to graduate school I would've said I was among the least talented of the students, I was certainly the…
— Mary Karr
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For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of…
— Patrick J. Kennedy
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I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.
— Anne Lamott
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My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917.…
— Spike Lee
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All through graduate school, instead of having a television I read murder mysteries: Hammett, Chandler, Ruth Rendell, P. D. James.
— Donna Leon
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I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
— Maya Lin
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There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of…
— Jena Malone
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If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just…
— Janet Napolitano
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I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since…
— John Forbes Nash
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
— Rachel Nichols
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I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of…
— James Patterson
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As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published…
— Steven Pinker
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Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
— Sydney Pollack
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When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives…
— Paula Poundstone
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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974.…
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get…
— Kathy Reichs
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As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or…
— Jason Reitman
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My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved…
— Dennis Ritchie
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Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate…
— Marilynne Robinson
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I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences…
— Marilynne Robinson
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You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be…
— Gil Scott-Heron
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It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do…
— Rick Santorum
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And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to…
— Bob Schieffer
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Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of…
— Andrew Shue
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