Quotes About Achievement

I was the first one in the family, on either side, to go to college - much less graduate school.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of graduate school.

When I was in high school at the age of 17 - I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia, as valedictorian of my high school - I was very proud of myself.

I wish I'd got my driving license at 18, not 22. I also wish I had graduated earlier, even though I didn't finish college.

I actually didn't finish NYU. I would have, but I was lucky enough to get my foot in the door before I graduated.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

It took me 10 years to get a four-year degree, but I graduated.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

In the 1940s, about 20% of people in the U.S. had graduated from high school, but less than 5% continued their education to get bachelors' degrees or higher.

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

I've always been a huge proponent for education; I graduated high school at 14 years old and graduated college at 17 years old.

When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

My parents' greatest wish was that I graduated from college. Neither of my parents had a college education, and they really wanted me to have one.

I was going to college on a full scholarship. I graduated summa cum laude. I was always on the dean's list. I was never a kid that started any kind of trouble.

I graduated from high school in 1962.

No one in my family graduated from college until my brother did, and then I did.

I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.

I barely graduated high school.

The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.