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Quotes About Graduate

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
~ Simon Newcomb
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
~ James Cronin
My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.
~ George Stigler
For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
~ Elizabeth Edwards
My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
~ Naomi Klein
I am a fashion graduate, and I try to make a fashion statement which defines my individuality, as clothes are not just what you wear, but they also communicate.
~ Shweta Tripathi
I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.
~ Keshia Knight Pulliam
I graduated from Notre Dame.
~ Pat Connaughton
I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.
~ James Patterson
I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.
~ Derek Theler
I did go through graduate school and I like to do research, to create something that has a certain objective solidity. The same thing influences my fiction to some degree, because, you know, my fiction is often based on history that I've read.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Virginia Woolf was a babe.' Of the many foolish things I said in graduate school, this is the one that haunts me the most. But I didn't regret it immediately.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
Syrian-born graduate student in Wisconsin who became biological father of Jobs and Mona Simpson, later a food and beverage manager at the Boomtown casino near Reno.
~ Walter Isaacson
Page 67: For jobs that require a college degree, race differences in cognitive ability in the workplace should be minimized by the process of obtaining that college degree. But it hasn't worked that way since at least the 1970s. Colleges have been complicit in transmitting the mean IQ differences by race in the general population not only through the college pipeline but through the graduate-education pipeline as well.
~ Charles Murray
In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.
~ Wes Craven
It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
~ Mary Gordon
I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
~ Carol P. Christ
I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.
~ Tobias Wolff
Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection - that was an event I'll never forget.
~ Mario Testino
It's the training, not the screening, that can put a high school graduate, who may have never driven a car, at the wheel of a fifty-million-dollar tank.
~ Dan Carrison
Did they want what I wanted? Did they want to understand, to unlock it? To decode it? To glean, to touch, to learn, to get something, to proceed, to get somewhere, to graduate, to work, to thrive; to someday, sometime, finally earn the luxury, the permission to … stop, to stop all of this, to relax, and forget?
~ Chip Kidd
Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
~ Angela Rayner