Graduation Quotes - Page 17

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

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.

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.

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

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.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

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

When you work for other people you'll find ... that they do know what's best for them, and for the company. And you should listen to them and be respectful, but they don't know what's best for you.

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

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

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

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.

Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

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.

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

College is something you complete. Life is something you experience.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

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

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.