Quotes About Opportunity

Making community college more accessible means more of our high school graduates can learn the skills they need to get good paying jobs.

Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

Apart from finding a first job, college graduates seem to adapt more easily than those with only a high school degree as the economy evolves and labor-market needs change.

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

I didn't graduate from college, so I might as well be on Atlantic Records, right?

I was the only BBC graduate trainee in 1961 interested in arts broadcasting. I knew I wanted to write, and I had to make a living.

I want to do 'The Graduate!' When Lorraine Bracco's finished, I'm up for it.

I didn't go to business school. I actually didn't even graduate high school. I ended up with a GED. So everything that I've learned in business, I've learned through experience.

We have too few college graduates. We also have too few people who are prepared for college.

I think that for me, as a UNC graduate, I value my education - I think everyone who's gone to that university values education.

I didn't graduate high school.

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

We want to believe that we live in a world where our daughters can do anything and be anything. And you'd think they could - they outnumber boys in college, graduate school, and the work force.

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

While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

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

So basically, I graduated high school a semester early.

After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.

My mother graduated from high school at 15 and went to work to support the family because the eldest son went to college.

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

I graduated college in 1983, so that's 32 years, and all I've done for a living is act or commercials or voiceovers. So I have nothing to complain about.

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.