Graduates Quotes - Page 18

• Count Basie was college, but Duke Ellington was graduate school.

  Clark Terry

  Music, School, College

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• Love is the vital essence that pervades and permeates, from the center to the circumference, the graduating circles of all thought and action. Love is the talisman of human weal and woe
  -the open sesame to every soul.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Love, Peace, Essence

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• Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

  John Mason Brown

  Education, Thinking, Sheep

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• There's a lot for you to live for. Good things are definitely in your future, Leonard. I'm sure of it. You have no idea how many interesting people you'll meet after high school's over. Your life partner, your best friend, the most wonderful person you'll ever know is sitting in some high school right now waiting to graduate and walk into your life - maybe even feeling all the same things you are, maybe even wondering about you, hoping that you're strong enough to make it to the future where you'll meet.

  Matthew Quick

  Strong, School, Ideas

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• Sometimes people graduate but they don't leave. They hang around for years, for no reason. I would think of ghosts like that, I decided.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.131, Penguin

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• When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

  Bill Cosby

  Graduation, Dream, College

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• One of the great failings of the American education system (in our view) is that young people can graduate from university without any understanding of poverty at home or abroad.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Home, Views, People

  Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn (2009). “Half the Sky”, p.88, Vintage

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• What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.

  Sylvia Plath

  Book, Writing, School

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.19, Hamilton Books

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• The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.

  Bill Gates

  Science, Years, Ideas

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• Nowadays, when a speaker tells the graduates that the future is theirs--is that a promise or a threat?

  Milton Berle

  Education, Teaching, Promise

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• It is very common ... to tell graduates: dream and dream big. I say do more than that. When you dream you are in an unconscious state. It ends. You wake up. It's not real.

  Roger Goodell

  Inspirational, Graduation, Dream

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• There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

  Henny Youngman

  Graduation, Memorable, Sparks

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• Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor beast of burden that he is, can be expected to know a little of each. As the number of physicists increases, each specialty becomes more self-sustaining and self-contained. Such Balkanization carries physics, and indeed, every science further away, from natural philosophy, which, intellectually, is the meaning and goal of science.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

  New Scientist, Vol. 21, No. 374, January 16, 1964.

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• I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

  Sidney Altman

  Opportunity, Waiting, Months

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• Ron Hubbard was trying to get people out of their body with his HCA courses, but frankly, he was failing badly. When I was a staff member, occasions came up that I was asked to help some member of the graduating class to get a reality on out-of-body experiences...Hubbard would never acknowledge this ability of mine, and after leaving him I did a lot of experimenting.

  Paul Twitchell

  Reality, Class, People

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• Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Writing, Creative, United States

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• People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do?

  Zach Braff

  Garden, People, Lasts

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• We have a game we play when we’re waiting for tables in restaurants, where you have to write the five things that describe yourself on a piece of paper. When I was [in my twenties], I would have put: ambitious, Wellesley graduate, daughter, Democrat, single. Ten years later not one of those five things turned up on my list. I was: journalist, feminist, New Yorker, divorced, funny. Today not one of those five things turns up in my list: writer, director, mother, sister, happy.

  Nora Ephron

  Daughter, Mother, Being Yourself

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• When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.

  Barney Frank

  Grateful, Funny Graduation, Swim

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• I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

  Dorothy Moore

  Daughter, Mother, Long

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• Jews were asked when life begins. For them it's when they finally graduate medical school.

  Evan Sayet

  School, Medical, Jew

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• I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court.

  Richard Land

  School, Ivy, League

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• At times God's best pupils experience the most rigorous and continuous courses. Eventually those who prove to be men of Christ will thereby become distinguished alumni of life's school of affliction, graduating with honors.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, School, Men

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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• Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.

  Richelle Mead

  Stars, People, Lightning

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.150, Penguin

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