Topic: Graduation

Quotes

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

- Will McDonough

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

- Jim Jarmusch

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

- David Eddings

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

- Gordon Brown

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

- Ruth Ann Minner

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.

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

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

- Garry Trudeau

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

- Carol Burnett

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

- Robert M. Hutchins