Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyra Banks

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.

One quintessential moment in time is when you're 22, when you graduate college. And then another quintessential time is as a middle-age man. That's the convergence.

Marilyn Nelson

One of my graduate school professors, to whom I started sending poems when I started writing again after a 10-year hiatus, suggested I prepare a book manuscript which he could send to publishers for me.

Anne Sebba

More women than men graduate in media studies. They don't know how to find a fixer; they don't know about weaponry; they don't know where is safe, where is not safe - they just want to prove themselves.

Gerald Wilson

My grades weren't what they should have been, so they sent me back to the ninth grade. I was glad, because I wanted to study music, and Cass Tech was second only to Juilliard. We studied all kinds of music, harmony and orchestration.

Maybe today is a sign that we can gradually move modestly higher without getting crazy.

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.

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.

David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

David Nicholls

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

She seems to think that I'm already doing what her graduate students are going to school for.

She graduated from high school with perfect marks.

Marin Hinkle

Since I got out of grad school at NYU, I've always done as many plays as I can.

Melissa McCarthy

Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.

Archimedes

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth.

We're here so graduate students know we have housing on campus.

She wanted to graduate early. She had high priorities, and she knew what she wanted. At one time, she said she wanted to be a veterinarian.

She's really stepped up with the graduation of their star players from last season. She has a real nice step back move and can shoot out the three. She's really a player that, as a sophomore, has become their leader.

Aristotle

Education is the best provision for old age.

Aristotle

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Robert Reich

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

William Christopher

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.

Elizabeth Warren

I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

Brian Kernighan

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student.

Al Madrigal

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

Ving Rhames

I graduated on a Friday. By Monday, I was doing Shakespeare in the Park.

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

William Lyon Phelps

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Charlie Trotter

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.