3 December 2020 Hamilton Jordan I went to my son’s graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I’ve never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it’s the good people who don’t speak out.
3 December 2020 Ruth Ann Minner Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
3 December 2020 Ayelet Waldman I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan – it was a graduation requirement.
3 December 2020 Al McGuire Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
3 December 2020 Neil Simon You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
3 December 2020 Alexis Herman 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.
3 December 2020 David Eddings I wrote a novel for my degree, and I’m very happy I didn’t submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
3 December 2020 Gordon Brown Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
3 December 2020 Faith Hill 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.
3 December 2020 Clive James Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.
3 December 2020 Frank Murphy The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.
3 December 2020 Peter Jurasik 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.
3 December 2020 Fred Allen I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
3 December 2020 Robert M. Hutchins The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
3 December 2020 Jim Evans My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
3 December 2020 T. S. Eliot Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
3 December 2020 Fiona Apple 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.
3 December 2020 Maureen Forrester 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.
3 December 2020 Bobby Heenan North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
3 December 2020 Jillian Bach My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
3 December 2020 Henny Youngman This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
3 December 2020 Olivia Wilde I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben 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.
3 December 2020 John F. Kennedy It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
3 December 2020 M. H. Abrams When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
3 December 2020 Moira Kelly A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
3 December 2020 Ruben Hinojosa 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.
3 December 2020 Leigh Steinberg 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.
