Quotes About Progress

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

I was the first in my family to graduate college.

Don't just sit around and wait for it to happen. 'Get Your Roll On.' If you're going to buy some rims, graduate from college, or whatever, get your roll on and make something shake.

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.

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

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.

I kind of just skyrocketed out of 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.

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 feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

There's Lindsey Graham 1.0 and then there's Lindsey Graham 2.0. I could not beat Lindsey Graham 1.0. That was the John McCain-Lindsey Graham.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

The United States... is the greatest nation on Earth, and I believe there are things that make us special - and one is this grand democratic experiment.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.

All humanity share a common future, and we must work to try and shape it together. This is our duty, and it is our responsibility to our children and grandchildren.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

My grandfather was born in 1920. His grandfather was born in 1860, at the beginning of the Civil War, into an America where slavery had yet to be abolished. And so, as I have sometimes thought about it, I dodged slavery by just five generations.

My grandmother was a sharecropper. That wasn't even that long ago! My grandma was a sharecropper.

With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.