Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexis Herman

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

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.

Amy Poehler

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

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.

David Murray

Where we spray it works. We are gradually tightening the noose.

James Altucher

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

Tim Ryan

We can provide incentives for people to graduate in math and science and engineering and the different kind of technological industries that we need them to graduate in.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

Langhorne Slim

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

Louis Zamperini

I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.

Lorrie Moore

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

Kourtney Kardashian

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

Janet Yellen

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

Scott Snyder

I've always been a relatively big history buff. In college, I took a lot of history courses, and when I was in grad school, I liked to audit them.

Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

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.

David Remnick

If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes, but you must also look beyond your own house. We're depending on you for your efforts and your vision. We are depending on your eye and your imagination to identify what wrongs exist and persist, and on your hands, your backs, your efforts, to right them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Audrey Hepburn

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Audre Lorde

We are all in the process of becoming.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Ben Bernanke

If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

Arianna Huffington

Don't buy society's definition of success. Because it's not working for anyone. It's not working for women, it's not working for men, it's not working for polar bears, it's not working for the cicadas that are apparently about to emerge and swarm us. It's only truly working for those who make pharmaceuticals for stress, diabetes, heart disease, sleeplessness, and high blood pressure.

Arianna Huffington

In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.

We really don't want to give Greenspan a grade yet. You want to wait a year or two to see whether the seeds turn to weeds.

Brian Kenny

There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

Kreayshawn

Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.