Graduation Quotes - Page 6

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.

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.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

The only thing urban about me is the parties. I have almost always been a suburbanite. I got a car for my graduation. I want to have a manicured lawn and have my son go to a good college.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

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.

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.

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.

I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

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It humorously suggests that the speaker unintentionally neglected to complete their graduation requirements or attend the graduation ceremony, implying forgetfulness or lack of importance placed on the formal graduation process.

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.

I started training at a local gym in New Jersey, and the day of my high school graduation, I packed up everything in my car and moved to Coconut Creek, Florida, where I trained with one of the best gyms in the world, American Top Team.

I missed out on a few proms, homecomings, might miss my graduation. I wouldn't want it any other way... it's worth it.

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.

I've done photo shoots for fashion brand catalogues and participated in graduation shows for fashion colleges.

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

From an offensive standpoint, because a lot of times your personnel can change - whether it's through graduation in high school and college, or whether it's through different changes in the NBA - I think you've got to locate and figure out what each guy's strengths and talents are.

For parents, graduation is one of the proudest moments of their lives. For many parents of disabled children, it is an achievement they never thought would happen for their offspring. For disabled students, however, graduation can be one of the most humiliating events we'll experience.

After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

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.

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted to be an actress, and thus, even though I got 92% in my board exams, I applied only to Jai Hind College for Mass Communication and got in and completed my graduation.

I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it wa... -Ayelet Waldman

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

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It humorously suggests that the speaker jokingly identified as a lesbian during a semester at Wesleyan University, possibly as part of an unconventional or humorous graduation requirement.

I had the luxury of skipping the cabinet meeting to attend my daughter's graduation. So many people don't have the luxury of taking an hour away from the workplace to attend indispensable family commitments. We have to change that dynamic.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It to... -Douglas Wilson

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

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It humorously suggests that the speaker spent a significant amount of time living in a dormitory during their educational journey, implying a prolonged period of study and academic progress before completing their graduation.

I always thought I would move to New York after graduation, but, instead, I moved to Los Angeles. I realized I was more scared of that choice than I was of New York, and I thought, at 22, I should get it over with.

I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation.

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