Graduation Quotes - Page 7

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.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

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It emphasizes the lifelong process of learning and personal growth, suggesting that education extends beyond formal schooling and continues throughout one's life, encouraging continuous learning and development.

The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

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.

Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went s... -Nate Dogg

Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.

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It states that immediately after graduating from high school, the speaker enlisted in the Marines, highlighting their swift transition into military service soon after completing their secondary education.

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I received $100 per week when I started working at... -Will McDonough

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

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It indicates that upon completing their graduation, the speaker began working at the Globe and received a weekly salary of $100, highlighting their entry into the workforce and the financial aspect of their post-graduation life.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

When I was at Tech, no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in the classroom, and if they're competing in class and in football, that's an attitude they take into life.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Bullying is something every kid in public, parochial, or private school has witnessed by graduation. While unfortunate, it is part of growing up.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

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.

By the time he arrived in Texas - via the red 1947 Studebaker Dad's parents gave him as a graduation gift - he was ready for the challenge of making his way in the oil business.

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in Ame... -Clive James

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then t... -Henny Youngman

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

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It humorously suggests that a man and his dog attended school together, but eventually, they were separated, and the dog jokingly "graduated" from school, emphasizing the playful notion of animals imitating human experiences.

I didn't even go to graduation.

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It reveals that the speaker did not attend their graduation ceremony, implying their lack of interest or personal reasons for not participating in the traditional graduation event.

From daycare to graduation, our education system stacks the odds against the poor. Predicted grades is just one of many hurdles that are set a little higher for those whose parents do not have the money to smooth their path in life or the inside knowledge of how the system works.

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my col... -Chris Gethard

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.

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It indicates that the speaker stopped drinking alcohol in 2002, shortly before their college graduation, suggesting a significant personal decision made during a pivotal period of their life.

It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, whe... -Sara Paretsky

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

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It states that the speaker attended the University of Kansas for their college education and obtained a degree in political science, specifying their alma mater and field of study.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, t... -Ayushmann Khurrana

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.

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It reveals that after completing their graduation, the speaker worked as a radio jockey (RJ) in Delhi at the age of 22, highlighting their early entry into the broadcasting industry and their notable achievement as the youngest RJ in the city.

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