Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Adam Savage

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

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.

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.

Tommy Caldwell

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

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.

I am undecided on my major, but I'm leaning toward psychology, ... I plan on graduating, even if the NBA comes calling. I am going to graduate.

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.

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.