"I am the proud and humble recipient of……" — Jessye Norman
"I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees."
More Degrees Quotes
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right… — Aristotle
- It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by… — Isaac Asimov
- Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and,… — Rowan Atkinson
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
- Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty. — Paul Auster
- It will be readily admitted, that a degree conferred by an university, ought to be a pledge to the public… — Charles Babbage
- I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree… — HonorÈ De Balzac
- There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. — Francis Beaumont
- Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree. — Ambrose Bierce
- Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence. — Ambrose Bierce
- Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. — Ambrose Bierce