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Death is a graduation. When we're taught all the things we came to teach, learned all the things we came to learn, then we're allowed to graduate. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college. — Mark Kennedy

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years. — Elizabeth Edwards

I like to say that journalism is the graduate school from which you never graduate. — Pete Hamill

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. — Peter McWilliams

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. — Robertson Davies

For a West Point graduate to abandon his appointed task in the face of adversity or personal discomfort was all but inconceivable. — David McCullough

I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay. — Michael Sam

In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney

I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate. — Ryan Lewis

The early 1960s, when I started my graduate studies at UC Berkeley, were a period of experimental supremacy and theoretical impotence. — David Gross

Don't you kids get any ideas about dragging a trailer into the backyard. after you graduate from high school, i don't want to see you again. — Alison Bechdel

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. — Mary Gordon

When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school. — Donald Ray Pollock

When we have passed the tests we are sent to Earth to learn, we are allowed to graduate. We are allowed to shed our body, which imprisons our souls. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

THE TRULY EDUCATED NEVER GRADUATE — Annabel Monaghan

Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy. — Tom Freston

With or without money, the work must be done. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning. — Irene Cara

In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students. — Noam Chomsky

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country. — Elin Hilderbrand

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research. — Sandra Lerner

Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic. — Jim Steinmeyer

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good. — Chad Michael Murray

I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net. — Jon Postel

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties. — Russell Banks

The pursuit of PhD is an enduring daring adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that. — Samuel Alito

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind. — Gore Vidal

God's lesson, through my eyes: Life doesn't end when we graduate to heaven. On the contrary, an infinite existence begins, and we have jobs to do. — Jennifer Bartholomew

Every great achiever overcame the greatest obstacles. — Lailah Gifty Akita

CALUMNUS, n. A graduate of the School for Scandal. — Ambrose Bierce

If we watch the interactions between human beings, we will receive a graduate-level education. — Richard J. Foster

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon

The Yale graduate who had refused to read outside the course curriculum (the future Pres. Taft) suddenly found himself inspired. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938. — George Stigler

You never graduate from the school of discipleship. — Howard G. Hendricks

I have had what might be called a post graduate course in the most important subject for all Canadians - Canada itself. — Vincent Massey

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am. — Erma Bombeck

I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program. — William Shatner

We never graduate from first grade. Over and over, we have to go back to the beginning. — Natalie Goldberg

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate. — Henny Youngman

I'm a graduate of Princeton, and I just want to say you don't have to go to an Ivy League school to be on the Supreme Court. — Richard Land

So I took the advice of one of my graduate teachers, Dr. Anthony Amato: "When in doubt, read to them. — Frank Stepnowski

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. — Al Lewis

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student. — James Cronin

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree. — Nadine Velazquez

All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves. — Barney Ross

I really did graduate at 14, and I go to college in the Los Angeles area near where I live. — Danielle Panabaker

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users. — Matt Mullenweg

The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You don't have to be a college graduate to murder someone." "Thank you for making the jury aware of that, Lieutenant. I'm sure they had no idea. — David Rosenfelt

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university. — Lee Kuan Yew

The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. — Herbert Hoover

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel. — C.J. Mahaney

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you. — Noam Chomsky

Surely, the Creator was with me in every circumstance. He has granted me a successful completion of my doctorate degree. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.' — Dan Shechtman

At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work. — Alice McDermott

When I was a graduate student, estimating and interpreting distributed lags topped the agenda of macroeconomists and other applied economists. — Thomas J. Sargent

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. — Doug Larson

DON'T QUIT NOW
Successful graduates from the school of life thrive on failed attempts
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali

I pray for the kids in the suburbs ... I pray that one day, we'll all graduate from similarity. — J. Merridew

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

What? She won't graduate because she can't swim the length of a pool? Really? Is this a serious academic position for a serious academic place? — Thomas Christopher Greene

Wages for the typical graduate of a four-year college have dropped more than 7 percent since 2000, and — Anonymous

The Canadian graduate student was now hysterical. — Victoria Bruce

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress. — Kaitlyn Dever

I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army. — Tommy Lasorda

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. — Robert Fulghum

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me. — Christopher Bollen

When it comes to educating all of us about the most basic things in life, it seems to me we need more kindergartens and fewer graduate schools. — Andy Rooney

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser. — Adam Gopnik

If want to succeed, you must work to overcome the obstacles on your path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The day you graduate from childhood to adulthood is the day you take full responsibility for your life. — Darren Hardy

I didn't give it much thought back then. I just wanted to get all the words straight and collect my A. — Gayle Forman

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore

'The Graduate' must be the best use of songs ever in a movie; it adds a layer to the movie you wouldn't ever get from a score. — Hans Zimmer

Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field. — Sydney Pollack

The world is waiting for us to graduate from ourselves. — Shannon L. Alder

I'm visiting my high school. Every half year I do the exams, and then this year I'm going to graduate. — Daniela Hantuchova

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000x ahead of everyone else. — James Altucher

The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say. — Sarah Vowell

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school. — Levon Helm

Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music. — Tony Blair

'The Graduate' should have won best picture over 'In the Heat of the Night.' — Andy Kindler

What college boils down to is a brand name stamped on the graduate for the benefit of corporate consumers. — Theodore Beale

The author said Frederick Douglass described himself as a "graduate" of slavery with the marks of his diploma on his back. — Harold Holzer

I am still enjoying the successful completion of my PhD; taking time to relax, renew, and refocus. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Fifty percent of all doctors graduate in the bottom half of their class - Hope your surgery went well! — Simone Elkeles

Thank you for that, boy genius! Where did you graduate from? Hogwarts School for the Mentally Unbalanced? — Leia Shaw

Over my life as a teacher, women have been too quiet. I'm quiet myself. I don't think I said three words the whole of graduate school. — Marilynne Robinson

I think it would shock most people if they really knew what we have each survived by the time we graduate high school. — Jennifer Elisabeth

Ronan said, "Keep it up, and you just might be a mechanic after you graduate. They'll put that in the alumni magazine. — Maggie Stiefvater

I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. — George Foreman

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. — M.H. Abrams

I am still enjoying the success. — Lailah Gifty Akita

People compared Garden State to the Graduate, but when was the last time you saw Dustin Hoffman doing what I do? — Zach Braff