Quotes about Graduation

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.”

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

“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 accidentally forgot to graduate from college.”

“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.”

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

“Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.”

“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.”

“Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”

“Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.”

“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.”

“When I was in college I was offered Kannada film 'Suryakaanti' and I took it up. That's when I realised that I could not balance both acting and education. I gave up films to complete my graduation.”

“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.”