Renee Olstead - 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.
Akshay Kumar - It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree.
Andy Behrman - 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.
Sandra Tsing Loh - 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.
Daniel Mallory Ortberg - I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
Ben Bernanke - High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.
Fiona Apple - I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.
Angela Bassett - When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school.
Parker Stevenson - I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to
Simon Newcomb - In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.
Ed O'Neill - In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls
Laurie Anderson - At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
Ruby Wax - College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.
Carol P. Christ - I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.
David Eddings - I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
Peter Gallagher - I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.
Leigh Steinberg - It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.
Alex Guarnaschelli - I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Albert Camus - Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Mac Thornberry - No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
John Adams - It will be celebrated with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.
Wendell L. Wilkie - I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.
Gerald Stanley Lee - America is a tune. It must be sung together
James Madison - The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
George Bernard Shaw - Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Kahlil Gibran - Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
Gloria Steinem - The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Barack Obama - In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope
Dwight D. Eisenhower - The history of men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
George Washington - Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America is another name for opportunity.
Peter Marshall - May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to do what is right.
Marquis de Lafayette - Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country.
Hazel Scott - Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go.
Germaine Greer - Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
James Baldwin - “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Lupita Nyong'o - Dreams are the foundation of America.
Hillary Clinton - Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - America means opportunity, freedom, power.
John F. Kennedy - Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
Thomas Campbell - The patriot's blood is the seed of freedom's tree.
Barack Obama - In the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.
Bob Dylan - I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
James Bryce - Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.
Henry James - I think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
J.S.B. Morse - I don't believe in the constitution because I'm American. I'm American because I believe in the constitution.
Fanny Lewald - That is the truly beautiful and encouraging aspect of freedom; no one struggles for it just for himself.
Ronald Reagan - Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
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