Graduation Quotes - Page 2

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.

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.

Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations.

I would say the most memorable thing that has ever happened to me has to be when I got my First class honours Law degree at my University graduation. All my family from all over the world were there when I collected my degree. I will never forget that day.

I wrote the screenplay for 'Water Lilies' while I was studying screenwriting at La Femis film school in Paris, and the director Xavier Beauvois, who was on the graduation committee, told me I had to make the film myself.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

I vividly remember my first meeting with Farooque Shaikh. It was in 1975. I had just returned from New York after completing my graduation and was looking for opportunities to begin a career as an actor.

One half who graduate from college never read anot... -G. M. Trevelyan

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

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It suggests that a significant portion of college graduates do not continue reading books after completing their formal education, implying a decline in reading habits or intellectual engagement among some graduates.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

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It indicates that the speaker has been awarded five honorary degrees, symbolizing recognition and appreciation from various institutions for their contributions or achievements in their respective fields.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and ... -Frances Arnold

I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.

I studied finance and accounting in college, and I worked at a massive accounting firm out of graduation.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.

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.

Simple health interventions such as lead paint abatement and home visiting for pregnant women result in not only improved health for children but also higher rates of graduation, reduced crime, and a more robust workforce.

My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant - that turned into my first job after graduation.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

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It humorously suggests that the speaker graduated from a fictional or unspecified university referred to as the "University of Whatever," playfully dismissing the significance or specificity of their alma mater.

I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

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.

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