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Quotes About Diploma

Looking back now, it is easy to feel as if she alone knew that success and happiness in life were more elusive even than an Ivy League diploma.
~ Jeff Hobbs
More than ever, a college diploma unlocks economic opportunity, provides students with a wealth of new skills and knowledge, and encourages innovation and growth. But more than ever, it also comes with a mountain of student loan debt.
~ Mark Pocan
Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a diploma.
~ L. Frank Baum
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
~ Ivan Illich
I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.
~ P. C. Cast
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.
~ Rod Blagojevich
My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.
~ Richard Sherman
As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.
~ Charles B. Rangel
I am a Kathak dancer, and have got an advanced diploma in it.
~ Shriya Pilgaonkar
My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.
~ Jared Isaacman
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
I have known far too many university graduates, in this country and in my own, who, as soon as they have received the diploma which declares them to be of Certified Intelligence, put their brains in cold storage and never use them again until they are hauled away to the mortuary.
~ Robertson Davies
That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.
~ Frederik Pohl
Going back and getting my degree is something that I promised myself and my mom the day I called her and my dad to tell them that I was entering the draft. Not a lot of people in my family can say they got a college diploma, so I want to do that - for them and for me.
~ Jabari Parker
I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.
~ Randy Travis
You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.
~ John C. Maxwell
framed law school diploma on a third. Mason examined it closely to be certain that Campbell's degree wasn't from the Columbia School of Broadcasting.
~ Joel Goldman
Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little clerk.
~ Alessandra Mussolini
I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
~ Frank L Baum
Cosa caratterizza la grazia?» "Io pensai alla piccola polacca, al suo collo, alle sue braccia, al volo della sua chioma, e risposi senza esitare: «Il movimento». "Presi diciannove. Devo il mio diploma all'amore.
~ Romain Gary
Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
with Jewish families: they believed that education was an investment in the future, the only thing that no one can ever take away from your children, even if, heaven forbid, there's another war, another revolution, another migration, more discriminatory laws—your diploma you can always fold up quickly, hide it in the seams of your clothes, and run away to wherever Jews are allowed to live.
~ Amos Oz
the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma. But behind this faith in the diploma there was something else, something more complicated, more secret, and that is that girls in those days, even modern girls, like us, girls who went to school and then to university, were always taught that women are entitled to an education
~ Amos Oz
The Gentiles used to say about us: the diploma—that's the Jews' religion. Not money, not gold. The diploma.
~ Amos Oz