Graduation quotes

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

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.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

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.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

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.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.