Al McGuire - Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
Bobby Heenan - North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
Elizabeth Blackwell - The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.
Kay Redfield Jamison - In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.
Brooke Shields - Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.
Vidal Sassoon - I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Jennifer Ellison - I want to tell people that I had post-natal depression because there is so much stigma around the subject and there shouldn't be.
John Updike - I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
Claire Danes - I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.
Bobby Scott - It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Marian Wright Edelman - Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Murray Gell-Mann - Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
Gene Wilder - When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
Andrew Solomon - I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Dick Cavett - Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
Alexa Von Tobe - For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
Henny Youngman - This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
James Madison - The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Winona Ryder - There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.
Patty Duke - My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Albert Ellis - You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Spike Milligan - As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.
Ruth Ann Minner - Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Richard King - I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
Elbert Hubbard - God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Austin Butler - Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.
Shirley Temple - I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.
Claire Tomalin - When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
Shirley Manson - The truth is, I've always been wracked with self-loathing and terrible, paralysing depression.
Martha Reeves - The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
Erma Bombeck - Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
Dorothy Hamill - My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
Kay Redfield Jamison - There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.
Andrew Flintoff - I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.
Ricky Hatton - Depression is a serious thing and, after my defeat to Pacquiao, I was facing retirement and didn't cope with it very well.
Amy Grant - I never thought getting older would be so great. But when it comes to depression, I have experienced less the older I've gotten.
Ted Nelson - So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
John F. Kennedy - It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Steny Hoyer - But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
Peter Capaldi - The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Rick Springfield - You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
Andrew Weil - The World Health Organization has recognized acupuncture as effective in treating mild to moderate depression.
Andrew Solomon - Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.
Jim Jarmusch - I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
Douglas Wilson - Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
Margo Jefferson - Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
Sloane Crosley - It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
Rosalynn Carter - My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.
Kirsten Dunst - I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.
Ben Shapiro - It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.
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