Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patch Adams

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

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.

Larry Page

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

Graduated licensing has been the only thing that has worked.

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.

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.

Gloria Steinem

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

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.

There was a lot of pressure on us tonight. We went up their last year and lost. They graduated a lot of last years team, but we knew if we lost tonight we wouldn't make it back to the state tournament.

Margaret Spellings

At all grade levels, all subjects and all kids, we know where we need to work,

Albert Camus

At each of those moments when he leaves the heights and gradually sinks toward the lairs of the gods, he is superior to his fate, ... He is stronger than his rock.

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want.

Michael W. Smith

Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

Norm Crosby

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

Neil Gaiman

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Neil Gaiman

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Neil Gaiman

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

Neil Gaiman

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Nora Ephron

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Neil Gaiman

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Millard Fuller

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Maya Angelou

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Maya Angelou

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Mary Engelbreit

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

Peter Dinklage

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Mariah Carey

I'm stuck in 7th grade & I just keep getting let back

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.

Mathew Staver

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.

Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

Ted Nelson

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Theodore Roosevelt

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.