High School Diploma Quotes

#1. It's easier to get your high school diploma, become a police inspector, or get your master's degree in literature than to commit suicide. The success rate is less than eight percent.

Martin Page

#2. Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D.

Thomas Szasz

#3. But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

Frank McCourt

#4. My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

Dwight Yoakam

#5. I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

Bill Maher

#6. The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper.

Ron White

#7. Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

Van Jones

#8. Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

Rachel Grady

#9. Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

Megan McCafferty

#10. What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius.

James Cook

#11. I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

Elayne Boosler

#12. By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent ... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.

Patrick DeWitt

#13. The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

Ramin Bahrani

#14. The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

Elijah Cummings

#15. Useless labor, that I feared would stay in my mind, extending into me, into everything. On the occasion of both funerals I made plans ahead of time to visit Pasquale. In those years I did that whenever I could. In prison he had studied a lot, had received his high school diploma, and, recently, a

Elena Ferrante

#16. As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.

Charles B. Rangel

#17. If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

Walter E. Williams

#18. My mom's a secret Rastafarian.

Jenna Bush

#19. We ever long for visions of beauty,
We ever dream of unknown worlds.

Maxim Gorky

#20. I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

Andrew Rannells

#21. As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.

Thomas More

#22. I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

Maurice Allais

#23. Prejudice begets prejudice, you see. Knowledge does not always evolve into wisdom.

Nnedi Okorafor

#24. I was married once
in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.

W.C. Fields

#25. If you look upon ham and eggs and lust, you have already committed breakfast in your heart.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Cyber weapons provide the tantalising possibility of being able to cripple the enemy without inflicting lasting damage on them.

Philip Hammond

#27. Okay, well, if motion is the constant, how can I remain in motion?

Baratunde Thurston

#28. How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!

Teresa Of Avila

#29. Love is the best drug, bar none.

Crystal Woods

#30. He went on to say that if the Wicked Queen were around today, the whole story might have been different, because she would have looked in her Magic Mirror and said, If I got a little laser work around the jaw and eyelids, I might still be considered the Fairest in the Land.

Suzanne Finnamore

#31. My orphan heart thought love was to complete someone else and to be completed by them. I didn't understand that when two people who aren't whole try to complete each other they both end up with less than when they started. I didn't understand that the only one who can make a person whole is God.

Lacey Sturm

#32. The mask is torn off, while the reality remains

Lucretius

#33. She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again.
A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

Cassandra Clare