Quotes of Graduate - somelinesforyou

“ I think the people, the working-man people, made a statement here, that you don't have to be a college graduate to be a good Canadian. ”

- Don Cherry

“ 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. ”

- George Foreman

“ The elective system offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapes of knowledge and never had their fill. ”

- Ted Morgan

“ Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ It means that the market for our graduates is getting much, much better. ”

- Gifford Pinchot

“ Fame and glory are fleeting, especially in the music business. That's why completing my degree and graduating from college were priorities. ”

- Clay Aiken

“ You'll be hearing from my lawyer as soon as he graduates from law school! ”

- Groucho Marx

“ Give me an Army of West Point Graduates, and I'll win a battle… give me a handful of Texas Aggies, and I'll win a war!! ”

- George S. Patton

“ If, while you are in school, there is a shortage of qualified personnel in a particular field, then by the time you graduate with the necessary qualifications, that field's employment is glutted. ”

- Marguerite Emmons

“ If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates? ”

- Unknown

“ Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors. ”

- Louisa May Alcott

“ No one ever graduates from Bible study until he meets its Author face to face. ”

- Everett Harris

“ One half who graduate from college never read another book. ”

- Herbert True

“ The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. ”

- Robert M. Hutchins

“ The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ”

- Newton D. Baker

“ I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition… Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location. ”

- John Nash

“ I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. ”

- Novalis

“ I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices. ”

- David Cassidy

“ When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential. ”

- Christine Gregoire

“ Every graduate at the conservatoire is able to compose a Symphony, and maybe it will even receive a performance. But to write a melody which is sung and played by hundreds of interpreters is something one really has to be born to - ideally in America. ”

- Wojciech Kilar

“ When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization. ”

- Mervyn A. King

“ What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? ”

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“ I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of "Munich" may exceed the original error of 1938. ”

- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

“ I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best — it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money — provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. ”

- Peter De Vries

“ We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals… ”

- Gerald Weinberg

“ Having been an English literary graduate, I've been trying to avoid the idea of doing art ever since. I think the idea of art kills creativity. I think media are at their most interesting before anybody's thought of calling them art, when people still think they're just a load of junk. ”

- Douglas Adams
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