Quotes About Graduate Degrees

#1. Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.

Donna Shalala

#2. When I graduated, I was told I was the first Latino to have three graduate degrees from Harvard. And Harvard does something amazing to you. It opens the doors to the world.

Raul Ruiz

#3. I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks.

David Livermore

#4. My undergraduate studies at Brown and graduate degrees from Harvard prepared me for a multifaceted career as an actor, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Hill Harper

#5. Many of our young people spend four years getting very expensive college degrees. But our universities fail them and the nation if they continue to graduate students with expertise in biochemistry, mathematics or history without teaching them to think about what problems are important and why.

Heather Wilson

#6. The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

Grant Gustin

#7. The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce.

Octavio Paz

#8. The United States does not torture.

George W. Bush

#9. To all the women that I've offended, I had no intention to be offensive, to violate any physical or emotional space. I was trying to establish personal relationships, but the combination of awkwardness and hubris led to behavior that I think many found offensive.

Bob Filner

#10. The main function of a university is not to grant degrees and diplomas, but to develop the university spirit and advance learning. The former is impossible without corporate life, the latter without honours and post-graduate

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

#11. The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.

Curt Flood

#12. My words are easy to understand and easy to perform,
Yet no man under heaven knows them or practices them.

Laozi

#13. Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

Samuel Alito

#14. We need to align the incentives so that colleges have an incentive to keep down their costs ... to graduate students on time with degrees in areas where they're going to be able to get jobs and going to be able to pay back those loans.

Elizabeth Warren

#15. Didn't you know that people hide love like a flower too precious to be picked?

Emperor Wu Of Han

#16. Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.

Susan Wojcicki

#17. You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.

Tarryn Fisher

#18. I had a major in business, and I graduated with a business degree, but I was perhaps the worst student to graduate from that program.

William Shatner

#19. It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

Bryan Clay

#20. Two negatives don't make a positive, any more than two half-wits make a wit.

Neil Kinnock

#21. I think that we should give visas to people - green cards, rather, to people who graduate with skills that we need. People around the world with accredited degrees in science and math get a green card stapled to their diploma, come to the U.S. of A. We should make sure our legal system works.

Mitt Romney

#22. Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

Adam Gopnik

#23. I went to McGill University, but I didn't graduate. They won't graduate me because I didn't have a degree in any one thing. I studied everything and they were like, "You studied too many things, so we can't give you a degree."

Rachelle Lefevre

#24. I have seen women who are very interested in tech finish their graduate or undergraduate degrees, but then choose not to pursue a career in tech because they're not sure they want to spend the next 20-30 years in an industry that's very male dominated.

Padmasree Warrior