Famous Quotes
- A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
- Moira Kelly on Graduation
- A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
- Robert Orben on Graduation
- A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.
- Lee Pace on Graduation
- ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.
- Robert Sternberg on Graduation
- All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.
- Patina Miller on Graduation
- Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.
- Julie Taymor on Graduation
- At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.
- Peter Jurasik on Graduation
- At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
- Laurie Anderson on Graduation
- Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
- Marian Wright Edelman on Graduation
- Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
- Joe Baca on Graduation
- College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
- Ruby Wax on Graduation
- Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
- Gordon Brown on Graduation
- Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.
- Conan O'Brien on Graduation
- Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
- Herb Ritts on Graduation
- Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.
- R. Lee Ermey on Graduation
- Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.
- Faith Hill on Graduation
- Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.
- Clive James on Graduation
- For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
- Miguel De Cervantes on Graduation
- 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 upper-middle-class and wealthy families.
- Patrick J. Kennedy on Graduation
- From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
- Dick Cheney on Graduation
- God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard on Graduation
- Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
- Jon Secada on Graduation
- I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
- Christina Aguilera on Graduation
- I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.
- Parker Stevenson on Graduation
- I did get a degree in special education.
- Clay Aiken on Graduation
- I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.
- Daniel J. Evans on Graduation
- I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
- Jim Jarmusch on Graduation
- I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
- R. Lee Ermey on Graduation
- I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
- John Keegan on Graduation
- I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.
- James Green Somerville on Graduation
- I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
- Olivia Wilde on Graduation
- I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
- Carol P. Christ on Graduation
- I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
- Fiona Apple on Graduation
- I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.
- Scott Hamilton on Graduation
- I have actually five honorary degrees.
- Katherine Dunham on Graduation
- I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
- Jim Clyburn on Graduation
- I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.
- Tim Duncan on Graduation
- I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
- Fred Allen on Graduation
- I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.
- Will McDonough on Graduation
- I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.
- Frederick Reines on Graduation
- I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
- Tobias Wolff on Graduation
- I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.
- Daniel J. Evans on Graduation
- I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.
- Ken Buck on Graduation
- I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
- Irvine Welsh on Graduation
- I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.
- Maureen Forrester on Graduation
- I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
- Claire Danes on Graduation
- I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
- Ayelet Waldman on Graduation
- I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
- Peter Gallagher on Graduation
- I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.
- James Stewart on Graduation
- I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.
- Bob Newhart on Graduation
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