Quotes about Graduation

“I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.”

“I studied finance and accounting in college, and I worked at a massive accounting firm out of graduation.”

“I have the cliche 'struggling actor' story. I was waiting tables in New York, went out to L.A. soon after graduation to get some jobs, but it didn't work out. I wanted to cut my teeth in professional theater, so I came back to New York. It made my journey a longer one, but I really wanted to excel in the theater.”

“I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.”

“Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.”

“They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.”

“When I was at Tech, no public school was ahead of us in graduation rates. We got our guys to compete in the classroom, and if they're competing in class and in football, that's an attitude they take into life.”

“It's very interesting, if you look at a study that was done by the Brookings Institute back in 2009, they determined that if Americans do three things, they can avoid poverty. Three things. Work, graduate from high school, and get married before you have children.”

“I graduated from the University of Whatever.”

“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.”

“I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.”

“One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.”

“I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.”

“Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.”

“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.”

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”

“After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act in films.”

“The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.”

“Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.”

“I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.”

“I'm not sure if they do this in the States, but in Korea, until high school, on your graduation diploma there's a line that states your future goal. Kids write 'president' or 'astronaut,' or whatever. I always wrote 'singer.'”