Glory Quotes

Graduation Quotes – Page 2

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I was an undergraduate at Princeton, and I was pressed by the math department to go on to graduate school. Actually they gave me fellowships that paid my way, otherwise I would not have been able to continue.

Alonzo Church

I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

John Forbes Nash, Jr.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California.

Shelley Berman

Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

Evan Sayet

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

Al Lewis

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.

Robert Orben

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

Carol Burnett

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

Steve Blake

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.

Faith Hill

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

Ryan White

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

Martha Reeves

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.

Fiona Apple

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate.

Daniela Hantuchova

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.

Jillian Bach

There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Jena Malone

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.

Andrew Shue

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Donna Rice

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

Mark Kelly

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

Steve Spurrier

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

Abe Lemons

I went to graduate school at Harvard for one year I worked in the state legislature in Sacramento for one year. I taught school in Compton for two years.

Harry Shearer

I'm 18, I'm going to graduate high school in a few months.

Camilla Belle

Eight months later, having left Columbia, I was studying physics in a summer program and working in Colorado when I decided to enroll as a graduate student in biophysics.

Sidney Altman

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.

Parker Stevenson

A lot of student directors used to pick other students to be in their graduate films, so. I ended up doing a couple of them just for fun. Eventually, I got an agent through a friend and I did some commercials; then I got Knots Landing.

Brian Austin Green

In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.

Sarah Chalke

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.

Maureen Forrester

The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

Willie Mays

I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

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.'

Francis Ford Coppola

I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I was horrible at science and math. I couldn't pass a test to save my life! I'm surprised that it didn't take me until I was 20 to graduate. That's why my role is so cool - Grissom is the complete opposite of me.

William Petersen