| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Bobby Scott | It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree. | 101 |
| Dick Cheney | 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. | 101 |
| 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. | 101 |
| Tom Brokaw | You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. | 101 |
| Andy Samberg | You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day. | 101 |
| Emma Bonino | The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature. | 101 |
| Gayle Forman | After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. | 101 |
| George Weinberg | My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. | 101 |
| 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. | 101 |
| Patricia Riggen | 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. | 101 |
| Tobias Wolff | 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. | 101 |
| Ken Buck | 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. | 101 |
| M. H. Abrams | When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. | 101 |
| Andrew Shue | 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. | 101 |
| Angela Bassett | When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. | 101 |
| Daniel Greenberg | Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do. | 101 |
| 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. | 101 |
| Alan Dundes | 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. | 101 |
| Taylor Spreitler | I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech. | 101 |
| Christie Laing | I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career. | 101 |
| Dennis Washington | 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. | 101 |
| John Keegan | 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. | 101 |
| Jon Secada | 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. | 101 |
| 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. | 101 |
| Joseph Kanon | At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. | 101 |
| Bernie Siegel | God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. | 102 |
| Alexa Von Tobel | 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. | 102 |
| 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. | 102 |
| Pedro Pascal | 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. | 102 |
| Richard King | I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies. | 102 |
| Daniel J. Evans | I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. | 102 |
| Alexandra Robbins | Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why. | 102 |
| 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. | 102 |
| Dana Snyder | I graduated from the University of Whatever. | 102 |
| 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. | 102 |
| Dennis L. McKiernan | Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force. | 102 |
| Fred Allen | I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back. | 103 |
| Norman Cousins | It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete. | 103 |
| Stephen Curry | I think about the milestones from my childhood and what it will be like to watch our kids go through them. Taking Riley to her first day of school was a whirlwind. I can't imagine what middle school is going to be like, and high school, and graduation. | 103 |
| William S. Burroughs | The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values. | 103 |
| Robert Anthony | Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.  | 103 |
| Ed O'Neill | 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. | 103 |
| Kimberly Quinn | I have a 4-year-old and a 14-year-old, and think I missed a recital and a graduation, and they were like 'It's OK mommy, we'll take pictures.' It was my upset, though... they were just fine! I just give them a kiss and a hug and let them know that I love them every day. | 103 |
| Susumu Tonegawa | I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan. | 103 |
| Taylor Mali | No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are. | 103 |
| Tony Hillerman | The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college. | 103 |
| Martha Reeves | The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. | 103 |
| David Lee | 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. | 103 |
| James D'arcy | It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor. | 103 |
| James Tobin | Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. | 103 |
| Junior Seau | 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. | 103 |
| Robert C. Merton | 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. | 103 |
| Shannon Lucid | I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree. | 103 |
| Al McGuire | Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. | 103 |
| James Green Somerville | 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. | 103 |
| Marian Wright Edelman | Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. | 104 |
| Chance The Rapper | One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.' | 104 |
| 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. | 104 |
| Oliver E. Williamson | My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini. | 104 |
| Parker Stevenson | 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. | 104 |
| Harold E. Varmus | Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University. | 104 |
| Karan Johar | My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my father had made five films that lost money. One of the films he made was 'Agneepath,' which was hugely hyped but underwhelming at the box office, and I remember that my dad had to sell my grandmother's flat to pay off the loan. | 104 |
| Patrick J. Kennedy | 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. | 104 |
| Christine Gregoire | When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. | 104 |
| Donna Rice | After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count. | 104 |
| Gloria Stuart | 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. | 104 |
| 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. | 104 |
| Jim Clyburn | 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. | 104 |
| Claire Danes | 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. | 105 |
| Gordon Brown | Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain. | 105 |
| Irvine Welsh | 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. | 105 |
| Clive James | Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. | 105 |
| Elizabeth Blackwell | The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. | 105 |
| Frederick Reines | 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. | 105 |
| Garry Trudeau | 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. | 105 |
| Gerald Chertavian | Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. | 105 |
| Maya Lin | I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. | 105 |
| Rita Levi-Montalcini | At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. | 105 |
| Robert M. Hutchins | The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. | 105 |
| Gary Cohn | Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets. | 105 |
| Moira Kelly | A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. | 105 |
| Alexandra Guarnaschelli | I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.' | 105 |
| Joe Baca | 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. | 105 |
| Conan O'Brien | 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. | 106 |
| Herb Ritts | Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. | 106 |
| Uday Kiran | I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well. | 106 |
| William Bennett | All real education is the architecture of the soul. | 106 |
| Peter Gallagher | 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. | 106 |
| Dianna Agron | I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. | 106 |
| Patina Miller | 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. | 106 |
| Simon Newcomb | 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. | 106 |
| 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. | 106 |
| 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. | 106 |
| Jenn Lyon | I left for New York three days after graduation. | 106 |
| Bobby Heenan | North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? | 107 |
| Francis Ford Coppola | When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.' | 107 |
| R. Lee Ermey | 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. | 107 |
| Bruce Eric Kaplan | What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment. | 107 |
| Lester Holt | 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. | 107 |
| Rick Santorum | It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children. | 107 |
| Sandra Tsing Loh | 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. | 107 |
| David Suchet | I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23. | 107 |
| Ted Nelson | In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. | 107 |
| Tommy Caldwell | I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation. | 107 |
| John Katzman | After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. | 107 |
| G. M. Trevelyan | One half who graduate from college never read another book. | 108 |
| Harold E. Varmus | 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. | 108 |
| Ted Nelson | So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. | 108 |
| Renee Olstead | If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation. | 108 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | The doer alone learneth. | 109 |
| Miguel de Cervantes | 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. | 109 |
| Ruben Hinojosa | 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. | 109 |
| Mark Kennedy | I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college. | 109 |
| Ruby Wax | College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. | 109 |
| Carol Burnett | We don't stop going to school when we graduate. | 110 |
| Gil Scott-Heron | You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing. | 110 |
| Katherine Schwarzenegger | I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings. | 110 |
| Natalie Babbitt | Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. | 110 |
| Lee Pace | 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. | 110 |
| Mallory Ortberg | I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian. | 110 |
| 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. | 110 |
| Jerry Moran | One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. | 110 |
| Lena Dunham | When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at. | 111 |
| Will McDonough | I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. | 111 |
| Clay Aiken | I did get a degree in special education. | 111 |
| James Stewart | 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. | 112 |
| Karen Finerman | I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed. | 112 |
| Carol P. Christ | 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. | 112 |
| R. Lee Ermey | 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. | 113 |
| Andy Behrman | 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. | 113 |
| Sara Paretsky | I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. | 114 |
| Daniel J. Evans | 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. | 114 |
| Tim Duncan | 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. | 115 |
| Brendon Urie | I didn't even go to graduation. | 116 |
| Katherine Dunham | I have actually five honorary degrees. | 116 |
| Marc Garneau | I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. | 116 |
| 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. | 117 |
| Sheryl Sandberg | When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. | 117 |
| Akshay Kumar | It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree. | 117 |
| Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. | 118 |
| Ayelet Waldman | I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement. | 118 |
| Jim Jarmusch | I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one. | 118 |
| Sloane Crosley | Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. | 118 |
| Julie Taymor | 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. | 118 |
| Regina Brett | My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day. | 119 |
| Scott Hamilton | I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. | 120 |
| Robert Sternberg | 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. | 120 |
| Jimmy Carter | In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' | 121 |
| Bruce Eric Kaplan | I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. | 121 |
| Laurie Anderson | 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. | 121 |
| Bruce Eric Kaplan | Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness. | 122 |
| Brian Sandoval | 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. | 125 |
| 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. | 126 |
| Douglas Wilson | Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. | 126 |
| Erma Bombeck | Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. | 202 |
| 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. | 205 |
| H. G. Wells | 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. | 205 |
| Elbert Hubbard | God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. | 206 |
| Ben Bernanke | High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability. | 206 |
| James Madison | The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. | 207 |
| Jill Scott | I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it. | 208 |
| Janelle Monae | 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. | 208 |
| Henny Youngman | This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! | 212 |
| Nina Easton | 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. | 212 |
| Anne Lamott | I accidentally forgot to graduate from college. | 213 |
| Tony Cardenas | Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates. | 214 |
| Paul Ryan | College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. | 219 |
| Thomas Perez | 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. | 302 |
| Christina Aguilera | I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. | 303 |
| Tim O'Brien | I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. | 303 |
| Plato | For good nurture and education implant good constitutions. | 306 |
| Olivia Wilde | I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. | 321 |
| Ray Bradbury | When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. | 326 |
| John F. Kennedy | It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree. | 506 |
| Kevin Spacey | After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley. | 608 |
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