College Graduates Quotes - Page 4

• I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

  Derek Bok

  Writing, College, Thinking

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• You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

  Andy Samberg

  School, Mean, College

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• Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  School, College, Years

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• The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

  Beth Henley

  Dog, School, College

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• We are specifically keeping the best and brightest out. It is the dumb and dumbest that we are letting in. Let me rephrase that: It is the ill-educated and the uneducated that we are letting in. The VCs, college graduates, PhDs, you name it, from all over the world, they are limited. The number of people of that caliber - severely limited and tightly controlled.

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, Names, Numbers

  "It’s the Statue of Liberty, Not the Statue of Immigration". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 1, 2010.

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have.

  Willie Mays

  Baseball, College, Thinking

  "What It Takes" with Alice Winkler., learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

  Marina Keegan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan, abcnews.go.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Senior, College, Differences

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

  Paul Ryan

  Moving, College, Childhood

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Gay, College, Who I Am

  "Mizzou's Michael Sam says he's gay". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.espn.com. February 11, 2014.

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