College Graduates Quotes - Page 3

• It's funny that when people reach a certain age, such as after graduating college, they assume it's time to go out and get a job. But like many things the masses do, just because everyone does it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

  Steve Pavlina

  Funny, Jobs, Mean

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• If knowledge is power and power is knowledge, then how so many idiots be graduating from college?

  Coolio

  Education, College, Graduates

  Song: The Winner

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• After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

  Joe Flanigan

  Jobs, College, Banking

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• College graduates work in every sector of the American economy, and the research engines incubated within our universities generate a wealth of ideas and innovations that have an enormous impact on our lives.

  Gordon Gee

  College, Ideas, Impact

  "The Promise of American Higher Education" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 18, 2012.

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• Making the future and the road to the future wealth lies in the youth of the present and future, and rebuilding the nation's institutions based on knowledgeable scientific foundations that require promising human capacities derived from college graduates. Universities are the makers of men, we are proud of their role and of the efforts of their administrators.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Lying, Men, College

  Speech at the First Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Commerce - Islamic University of Gaza, May 08, 2005.

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• At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, College, Agreement

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  One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

  Fidel Castro

  College, Benefits, Revolution

  "'A revolution is not a bed of roses': Fidel Castro in his own words" by Chris Johnston, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2016.

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• John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate intake. When I joined Toyota in Toyota City (where for a time I was the only American) in late 1983, every newly hired college graduate employee began learning his job by being coached [...]

  Martin Burns

  Jobs, College, Skills

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• Since 1994, unemployment rates are lower. Median household income is higher. A greater percentage of Americans are graduating from college. Home ownership rates are higher. And the violent crime rate has decreased.

  Cliff Stearns

  Home, College, Income

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• 42% of college graduates never read a book after college.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Book, College

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• You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

  Julian Bond

  College, Generations, Six

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• A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

  Archibald Cox

  College, Thinking, Issues

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• Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.

  Peter Dinklage

  College, Giving, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

  Charles Colson

  College, Average, Years

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• 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.

  Alexis Herman

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Attitude, College, Obamacare

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• More women are graduating from college now than men.

  Mitch McConnell

  College, Men, Graduates

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• 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

  Graduation, School, Sleep

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• I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

  Mitt Romney

  Jobs, Kids, College

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• Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Party, Gay, Kissing

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Absurdistan”, p.41, Granta Books

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• I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

  Jon Krakauer

  College, Years, Parent

  "Into the Wild". Adventure, Biography, Drama, 2007.

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• My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Children, Grandmother

  "Spike Lee Interview IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON'T RISE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2010.

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• You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

  Joan Rivers

  College, Use, Who You Know

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• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

  Andy Rooney

  Home, Night, College

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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