Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Buck

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want.

Michael W. Smith

Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

Norm Crosby

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.

Neil Gaiman

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Neil Gaiman

Make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

Neil Gaiman

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

Neil Gaiman

Be wise, because the world needs more wisdom. And if you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.

Nora Ephron

Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.

Neil Gaiman

Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

Millard Fuller

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Maya Angelou

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

Maya Angelou

I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.

Mary Engelbreit

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

Peter Dinklage

I waited a long time out in the world before I gave myself permission to fail. Please don't even bother asking. Don't bother telling the world you are ready. Show it. Do it.

Maureen Forrester

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Mathew Staver

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

Ted Nelson

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Theodore Roosevelt

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

Theodore Roosevelt

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Margaret Heffernan

Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

Michael Flatley

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

Michael Bloomberg

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

Chris Thompson

I just stay out of trouble to stay out of trouble. I do it so I can graduate, so I can get out of here.

Joseph Addison

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

Lisa Kudrow

I just listened to that inner voice. By the way, it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice... if it doesn't lead to a crime

John Adams

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences...

Eric Idle

Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not.

Frederick Reines

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

George Foreman

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today.

Ella Fitzgerald

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.