Quotes About Graduation

The American idea that everyone graduates high school at 18 is a good one.

I went through high school, but I didn't graduate.

Most people who graduate from college think they have to make a perfect choice. Is it Goldman Sachs? Is it Google? Is it Apple? They think that their first job is going to determine their career, if not their life.

We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

We want every guy to graduate, and we work very hard on that.

It started with my mom; she always wanted me to get my degree and graduate.

We must ensure that our students graduate high school and then earn a postsecondary certificate or degree.

It's always a big accomplishment to graduate from a university.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

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.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

I graduated college and moved back home, started helping my dad, did landscaping for a living.

I was allergic to school. I was completely befuddled by school. I was trying so hard, but I couldn't succeed. I took geometry for four years, the same course over and over again, and I did not graduate with my senior class. I finally passed geometry after doing summer school, and eventually, I graduated.

I graduated from college in 1980.

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 think about my own career, and when I graduated from college, the Internet didn't really exist yet. And so not having a specific plan, being able to be opportunistic at the end, is what enabled me to make some of my best decisions, which is to go to places that were growing but that I didn't plan to have happen.

When I graduated, everyone was like, 'You got to do pop and R&B to make it,' like very contemporary pop and R&B. I tried for a little while, but I just realized my voice wasn't quite fitting some of the records that I was doing.

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 in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.

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 known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.

In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'