Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

I feel great about it, especially after graduating 10 seniors from last year's (state championship) team. We have a young team and it is an honor to win the section.

Samuel Barnett

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

Charles R. Swindoll

Let your life yield a sweet, winsome melody that this old world needs so desperately. Yes you can if you will.

Bradley Whitford

We all go through life bristling at our external limitations, but the most difficult chains to break are inside us.

Bradley Whitford

Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Brooks Atkinson

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Elias Zerhouni

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

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.

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

Clay Aiken

I did get a degree in special education.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

David Foster Wallace

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

Cory Booker

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

Cory Booker

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

Ambrose Bierce

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal.

Alice Walker

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

Richard King

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

A. A. Milne

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Doug Larson

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Dr. Seuss

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Dr. Seuss

Oh, the places you will go.

Dr. Seuss

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

Dolly Parton

I'll never graduate from collagen.

David Berg

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

David Lloyd George

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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.

Anna Quindlen

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Chuck Norris

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.