Quotes About After Graduation

#1. Lydia shrugged. "At least we'll have some stories to tell after graduation."
"These aren't the kind of stories I want to tell.

C.K. Walker

#2. After graduation, we can just ... ride into the sunrise," he says. "The sunrise?" His lips twitch. "If we ride into the sunset, we'd wind up in the middle of the Pacific.

Heather Demetrios

#3. I left for New York three days after graduation.

Jenn Lyon

#4. The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.

Mitch Albom

#5. I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Olivia Wilde

#6. Maybe it's a symptom of a small town - and Gentry certainly was that - but for some, even after graduation, high school never really ends.

Matt Abrams

#7. The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates spoke and basically at commencement, he told us all that our job after graduation was to get married and have interesting sons ... and we all found that hard to believe.

Madeleine Albright

#8. 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

#9. A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly

#10. After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

Andy Behrman

#11. I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Gloria Steinem

#12. After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.

Kevin Spacey

#13. 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

#14. After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.

John Katzman

#15. Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#16. My first jobs after graduation in 1955 were as a project engineer for G.E. and later with the U.S. government in Washington, D.C., where I met and married my wife, Dolores Celini.

Oliver E. Williamson

#17. When are you getting married?'
'After graduation, stupid.

Paul Zindel

#18. If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

Renee Olstead

#19. I had never really given any thought to working for the CIA, but graduation was upon me; I was getting married just a week or two after graduation; I had no job, no prospects for a job. And so I said sure, I'd be interested in working for the CIA.

John Kiriakou

#20. I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Will McDonough

#21. 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

#22. Most of us won't see one another after graduation, and even if we do it will be different. We'll be different. We'll be adults
cured, tagged and labeled and paired and identified and placed neatly on our life path, perfectly round marbles set to roll down even, well-defined slopes.

Lauren Oliver

#23. Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.

Alexandra Robbins

#24. 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

#25. Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

Harold E. Varmus

#26. Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy.

Natalie Babbitt

#27. I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

David Suchet

#28. 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

#29. It means you have until graduation to make her yours. After that, I'm doing all I can to make her mine, and I won't quit until I do, brother.

N.E. Henderson

#30. The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years.

Dennis Washington

#31. Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long; there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

Rachel Maddow

#33. After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

Donna Rice

#34. One week before my 17th birthday, I had a blind date with June Rose, a television actress on network soap operas, a model, and a regular on the popular Dick Clark's Saturday night 'American Bandstand' show from New York. We were married five years later, one week after my graduation from Columbia.

Robert C. Merton

#35. The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows
out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after) ...

Elizabeth Savage

#36. You can't make a cloudy day a sunny day, but can embrace it and decide it's going to be a good day after all.

Jane Lynch

#37. You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by what you're going to learn after you leave here.

Charlie Munger

#38. The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.

Newton D. Baker