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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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