Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.

Larry Wilcox

It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.

Where are all the kids who graduated the last 25 years? There is nothing to keep them here.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Adam Savage

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

Douglas Smith

You don't really want to be responsible for the unwinding, because you can't be sure the markets will react in a gradual way.

Ving Rhames

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

Ravi Shankar

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

There is a very gradual improvement, but the rate of improvement is painfully slow.

Nikki Reed

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

Tommy Caldwell

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

Bikram Choudhury

Why must everyone need a doctorate to teach? You can be a graduate from my institute in two months and for $11,000.

Alice Sebold

I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.

Al Jourgensen

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

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

Conan O'Brien

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

Seamus Heaney

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart.

Gerald Chertavian

You have, unfortunately, a K-12 educational system where the requirements to graduate are not the requirements to be college and career-ready. So if you want young adults who are college and career-ready, our K-12 system right now does not have that as its standard.

James Avery

When you graduate and come out with a degree in drama, that doesn't mean you're skilled and you're a professional.

Jack Reed

When you go into the first grade you have to get up early.

Iain Sinclair

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence.

My parents... has always wanted all their kids to go to at least one year of Bible college after high school. I always knew that I was on my way to Moody Bible Institute when I graduated high school.

Blake Lively

I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.

There are 20 grades of turkey breast available. We use the top of the line.

Thomas is right there with them. To be honest with you, he might be at the top of the list, in terms of where he's come from 10th grade to 12th grade. What he's done in those two years is really a tribute to him working hard.

This treatment will last anything between 48 and 72 hours and then we will try to gradually wake the prime minister.

Paul Simon

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you

David Eddings

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

David Berg

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

Billy Graham

People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now ... I'm asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way.