Graduation College Quotes

#1. I went to a public high school, and after graduation, college wasn't really much of an option for me. I didn't believe I had the money or the grades at the time, so I continued to work and save money to support my acting career.

Christie Laing

#2. I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

Marc Garneau

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

Paul Ryan

#7. Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be ... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

Jon Secada

#8. The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

Nina Easton

#9. Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

Daniel Levitin

#10. The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

Martha Reeves

#11. Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

Julie Taymor

#12. The first time I saw him again, it was another year, at my college graduation. And I just knew.

Jenny Han

#13. I will miss you
not because you taught me,
not because you helped me on all steps of education;
but only because
you made me a leader to lead as an perfect Electrical Engineer.

Hasil Paudyal

#14. Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

Rick Perry

#15. I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

Tim O'Brien

#16. College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Ruby Wax

#17. Popular as he was as a graduation speaker, Vonnegut never graduated from college.

Kurt Vonnegut

#18. We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.

Barack Obama

#19. Being smart and rich are lucky, but being curious and compassionate will save your ass. Being curious and compassionate can take you out of your ego and edge your soul towards wonder.

Mary Karr

#20. Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#21. It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

Bobby Scott

#22. Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

Ruben Hinojosa

#23. Openness isn't the end; it's the beginning.

Margaret Heffernan

#24. 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.

James Stewart

#25. When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

Patricia Riggen

#26. A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#27. I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Parker Stevenson

#28. I accidentally forgot to graduate from college.

Anne Lamott

#29. Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

Alexis Herman

#30. I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

Sara Paretsky

#31. There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."

John Green

#32. You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.

Gil Scott-Heron

#33. One half who graduate from college never read another book.

G. M. Trevelyan

#34. I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

Fred Allen

#35. I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Mark Kennedy

#36. For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick J. Kennedy

#37. When you graduate from college, they tell you to follow your dreams. Does anyone say you have to wake up first?

Bill Cosby

#38. I've been waiting more than 30 years to say this: 'Dad, I always told you I'd come back and get my degree.' I want to thank Harvard for this honor. I'll be changing my job next year and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume!

Bill Gates

#39. On the hot, fragrant afternoon of my graduation from college it seemed that good fortune was not merely latent but unavoidable, folded and in the bag.

Geoffrey Wolff

#40. When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

Lena Dunham

#41. I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

James Green Somerville

#42. A university is a city of ideas, and we're grateful you became citizens of our city.

Mary Karr

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

Robert M. Hutchins

#44. It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

Millard Fuller

#45. I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

Karen Finerman

#46. To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

Bob Wise

#47. Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Andrew Shue

#48. The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

#49. The really significant education in thinking that we're supposed to get at a [liberal arts college] isn't really about the capacity to think but, rather, the choice of what to think about

David Foster Wallace

#50. When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.

Angela Bassett

#51. You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard

#52. You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day.

Andy Samberg