Degrees Quote by David Livermore

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it sure has earned a lot of people graduate degrees

— Robyn Irving

Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher…

— Donna Shalala

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity.

— Peter McWilliams

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

— Henry Fielding

In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's…

— Sheryl Sandberg

“The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.”

— Anonymous

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

— Albert Einstein

By exposing yourself to risk, you're exposing yourself to heavy-duty learning, which gets you on all levels. It becomes a very emotional experience as…

— Gifford Pinchot

Comin' from the school of hard knocks, Some perpetrate...they drink Clorox. Attack the black, cause I know they lack exact The cold facts, and…

— Chuck D

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been…

— Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

“If you have never reached rock bottom, you have never attended the school of greatness.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.

— John Lydon