Graduates Quotes - Page 6

• I moved straight from kindergarten ,at age 4, to graduate school to my position at Lake Forest ,at age 26. No break. No bumming around Europe. No peace corps. No corporate cubicle job. No stint as a Starbucks barrista.

  Davis Schneiderman

  School, Age, Kindergarten

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I started in the law; and the study of law, when it precedes the study of economics, gives you a set of foundation principles about how human beings interact. Economics is very useful, and I studied economics in graduate school. But without understanding the social and organizational context of economics, it becomes a theory without any groundwork.

  Robert Reich

  School, Giving, Understanding

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.

  Josh Turner

  Sports, School, Opportunity

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• Our educational system just doesn't work as well as it should any more. 70% of people are never going to go to college, and we don't give them the vocational or occupational training they need before we throw them into a work force where too often they find they don't fit. The 30% that do go to college find themselves graduating with debts that may cripple them for years.

  James Stone

  Educational, College, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's still sexism in the world, so there's still sexism in publishing and in graduate school. But it is different. Now, it's more coded and harder to detect. It was more explicit when I was in school. There were no rules against male professors asking out female students. The reverse didn't happen since female professors were rare or nonexistent. Visiting writers came, 90% of them male, and some expected that a female student would materialize as his date for the visit.

  Debra Monroe

  School, World, Female

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

  Olivia Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.

  Dallas Willard

  Plato, Philosophy, Crazy

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• Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Girl, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Jobs, Teaching, School

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• I began graduate school in the late 1980s, and my goal was to understand how morality varied across cultures and nations. I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the U.S.A.

  Jonathan Haidt

  School, Goal, India

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• Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

  Jack Horner

  Jurassic Park, Dinosaurs, Parks

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• What is art but the 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

  Art, Lines, Ascending

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• You do not know me, but I am a juvenile delinquent. I do not trust authority figures, I probably will not graduate from high school, and statistics say my present rowdiness and vandalism will likely lead to more serious crimes. I am a dangerous fellow, and I am causing mayhem in this store. [...] There. I have now shamelessly destroyed the symmetry of this shelf, undoing hours of labor by underpaid store employees. If you could see me, you would be frightened.

  Katherine Applegate

  School, Would Be, Statistics

  "The Diversion". Book by K. A. Applegate, 2001.

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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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• The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okay-more than good-looking. He's hot-like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic. But, like I said, he's my instructor. And he's twenty-four. Both of those are reasons why I shouldn't have fallen for him. But, honestly, the most important reason is that he and I will be Lissa's guardian when she graduates. If he and I are checking each other out, then that means we aren't looking out for her.

  Richelle Mead

  Badass, Mean, Important

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.187, Penguin

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• Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

  Alex Garland

  Tears, Poverty, Firsts

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.126, Penguin

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• I don't think that most women have to prove that they're real women. You live long enough, you graduate to being real.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Thinking, Long

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.33, Vintage

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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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• The most mortifying fact of my life is something that happened when I was fourteen and I have never admitted to anyone: not to friends nor therapists; not even in rehab when we were detailing our own personal spirals of shame did I confess. It is this: I am a graduate of the Barbizon School of Modeling.

  Augusten Burroughs

  School, Rehab, Facts

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Magical Thinking: True Stories”, p.36, Macmillan

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• I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

  John Scalzi

  School, Angst, Let Me

  John Scalzi (2010). “Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded: A Decade of Whatever, 1998-2008”, p.26, Macmillan

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• An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days. 'My thesis is on the survival of the class system in the United States.' 'Oh really, that's interesting: one didn't think there was a class system in the United States.' 'Nobody does. That's how it survives.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Thinking, Class, Oxford

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.216, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• So far I've seen the life studies packet used as (1) an umbrella, (2) a makeshift towel, (3) a pillow, and now this. I have never actually seen anyone study with it, which either means that everyone who graduates from Thomas Jefferson will be totally unprepared for life or that certain things can't be learned in bullet-point format.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mean, Bullets, Towels

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• After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga.

  Jenny Eclair

  Dad, Drama, School

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• And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't have jobs, who graduate from college and are fed the lie of meritocracy. "You get a degree, you get a job." That's not happening. We have young people who have become the Zero Generation: zero hope, zero employment, zero possibilities. Do we really believe that this young generation is going to stand by and not take note of an economic system that - however it calls itself - has completely betrayed them?

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Lying, Believe

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• For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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