I Got My Diploma Quotes

#1. I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Freddie Mercury

#2. 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

#3. There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

Ronnie Van Zant

#4. I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty.

John Muir

#5. Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead.

Mother Angelica

#6. A diploma is a piece of paper that is used to acquire another piece of paper: an employment contract.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#7. Recognize that your own motivation, ambition, and talents will determine your success more than the college name on your diploma."8

Charles Wheelan

#8. Civilization transformed man from a food gatherer to a gatherer of pieces of paper: diplomas, employment contracts, money, etc.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. 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

#10. You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.

John C. Maxwell

#11. When it was availed to me that I had free time, I chose to go to cooking school every day, six hours a day, like a diploma program. I wanted to learn something new.

Teri Hatcher

#12. Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

David Hockney

#13. My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

Richard Sherman

#14. The smile is civilization's finest adornment. It signifies the willpower and duty to fashion mankind's coexistence as quietly and agreeably as possible so that it will always appear friendly. For it is all a matter of appearance. The smile is culture's diploma: it is the diplomat's badge.

Iwan Goll

#15. 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

#16. A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

Edith Wharton