Honorary Degree Quotes

#1. I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

Denise Mina

#2. Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#3. In our witness, we are to shine not our own light but Christ's light. Just as a lamp requires oil, we depend on our fellowship with Christ and the Holy Spirit's enlivening ministry through God's Word in order that Christ's light may shine through us.

Richard D. Phillips

#4. Your goal should be to take your body and make it as healthy, strong, flexible and well-proportioned as you can.

Jane Fonda

#5. I myself am a parent in a small business. Number of employees: one.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Luce," Jude said, stopping me, "I get what a piece of shit I am, and it's not awful or unfair or incorrect for people to call me out on what I am. But I'd like to think a person can change, and I swear to you I'm going to try to leave me piece of shitedness behind.

Nicole Williams

#7. The trouble is, writing the damn thing is like unscrewing your skull and pouring the contents of your brain into an empty tank. The tank has a shape, more or less - has more or less defined edges, a bottom and sides. But what it mostly has is volume: a hungry space I've somehow got to fill.

Mike Carey

#8. Don't be afraid to make an ass of yourself. I do it all the time, and look what I got. (Spoken at a graduation ceremony while holding aloft an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University)

William Shatner

#9. Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Dolly Parton

#10. I choose to defend what I believe in.

Veronica Roth

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Jeff Bell

#12. When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

Natalie Dormer

#13. It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy.

Bill Gates

#14. Truly transformational knowledge is always personal, never merely objective. It involves knowing of, not merely knowing about. And it is always relational. It grows out of a relationship to the object that is known - whether this is God or one's self.

David G. Benner