Graduate Quotations | Page 2

My grandmother wanted my father to be a teacher because she was a teacher. He didn't go down that road until much later in life; he just kind of retired after almost 20 years as being a visiting lecturer at Stanford, where he got his graduate degree.

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive class consciousness of the place and time.

Maybe if I didn't have my injury, I wouldn't have studied as well in the classroom. I'm on pace to graduate right now. So I'm glad for that.

Obviously, he has some closure, because he's been waiting for the phone to ring, but we've also got to get him some help. (Collins) is a brilliant young man who's gonna graduate in three years. But he's still a 19-year-old young man that's lost his father.

Nobody sent you to this college to be ordinary. Most of you will graduate and do what someone tells you to be, but how many of you will be extraordinary?

One of the messages we want to get across ... is when children do not get what they need it is a reflection on their business. Children who are prepared for school graduate from high school, earn lots more money, the crime rate is much lower. In the future, it is a real asset for everyone.

One of the perks of my injuries is the chance to take advantage of graduate school.

I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do 'Same Love,' actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades and a full scholarship and a graduate degree and a good job - all the stepping stones to conventional success.

I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading.

If we had a 40,000-square-foot building, it means no graduate student offices, no research space at all.

If they can see the light at the end of the tunnel, they don't get frustrated and stick with us, ... We had some kids graduate in 2005 who in the past would not have made it.

If they graduate from high school and go to college, that would be our gift to them. It would be a triumph.

If they get more than that, they don't get credit for their classes, so it could affect the promotion of students from grade to grade, and ultimately their ability to graduate on time.

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

I came to graduate school at Harvard University in 1954. My thesis supervisor, Julian Schwinger, had about a dozen doctoral students at a time. Getting his ear was as difficult as it was rewarding. I called my thesis 'The Vector Meson in Elementary Particle Decays', and it showed an early commitment to an electroweak synthesis.

I am fully convinced that he will elevate the program to what you expect. You will love his values, you will be impressed with his preparation for every game and you will love the aggressive defense his team plays. He has made clear our players will do well academically and graduate and that he will comply fully with NCAA regulations.

I bought and paid for graduate school by buying and selling clocks.

Because of the way we run the school and the wavers we have through the charter school process, we can give them credit, they can catch up and graduate on time.

I'm a proud graduate of the Richard Petty Driving Experience, ... They wouldn't let me go any faster than 140 mph and I didn't particularly like that, but what a thrill to be able to participate in something like that.

I'm a graduate of Lock Haven, so I know the past history. We're trying to change that.

I'm a graduate of Hoover, I've been an assistant or head coach the last nine years and I have never seen a Hoover team hold an opponent to two single-digit quarters ? nine points or less ? and still be down at halftime. That just is unheard of.

I have always wanted to graduate from college and pursue a career in professional basketball. Over the next month, I will continue to gather information and decide what is best for me.

I have a big decision to make, since my visa to stay here expires in 2008. Do I stay in the U.S. and get a graduate degree in kinesiology, or go back home and play for the Polish National Team? It's a real-life decision I have to make soon.

I happen to be a proud graduate of an excellent private parochial school, and I can't imagine why anyone would hide such a fact.

I feel like I kind of represent what the American dream is all about. I was the first person in my family to graduate college.

I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!

I can't imagine what the odds are of her getting to Notre Dame and then the graduate program here in science. I think she's going to be in great demand because she's a talented woman. There just isn't anyone with her credentials who comes from her background.

From a young age, I wanted to play in the NBA. Oh well... It was when I was a senior in college that I fell for film, but even then, it wasn't documentaries. It wasn't until I ended up in graduate school at Southern Illinois University that I really discovered documentaries and thought that maybe that would be my calling.

If a student failed a course and couldn't graduate with their friends, they often opt not to come back and complete the course they failed. We should have three students graduate with their class, so it's helping our dropout rate.

I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was planning to study in graduate school.

I entered Harvard in 1965 not really knowing what I wanted to do. This confusion seems to have lost me a fellowship. G. D. Searle and Company, the pharmaceutical firm, had their home office in Skokie, and they gave a fellowship each year to a graduate from my high school that was going to major in science in college.

He was a new coach and decided to give me another chance. I got to go to a little smaller town, concentrate on my books and play basketball. I'm on track to graduate in May, and I think I've made the most of it.

He'll graduate in May and he wants to get on with things.

His options are really limited. I know he'd have to go to a junior college and graduate before getting a chance at another Division I school.

He's focused on the job of governor and he's continuing to move forward with his strategy and his initiative to make sure Ohio's high school students graduate with the skills necessary to be successful.

There are no real rules or regulations as to who could appraise, so consumers should look for graduate gemologists with Appraisal Association and experience in retail market as well.

He was not involved in the negotiations with P&O to purchase terminal facilities in the United States. He has over 30 years of port and maritime experience, is a graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and is a former naval officer.

I always admired from a distance how close he got to his graduate students. I can't be him, but I want to be like him.

He is very charming and not arrogant. I think he will find himself having a tremendous number of graduate students because he has kind of a magnetic personality.

I was alternate number 45, but the new graduate program helped open up spaces.

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Joel did a great job as a graduate assistant here and has gone on to cut his teeth in the coaching profession. He's a detail guy with a lot of energy, and we're thrilled to have him back at Purdue.

Jodie Foster is an eminent Ivy League graduate who has achieved tremendous success and influence in the powerful entertainment industry.

Juan is not a bad kid. But I think he was just searching for himself. Now he's going to graduate and get his diploma. Everybody knew he was capable.

I think it's a good decision. I think he's got a chance to be one of the premier forwards in the nation next season. He became a leader on our basketball team this past season, and I think he'll continue to mature as a player. And I'm also excited because he's on track to graduate next spring.

I taught at Princeton and it was undergraduate and I much prefer teaching undergraduates to graduate students in writing programs.

I think it's important for students to talk to graduate schools to figure out how their schools utilize the GRE, and it's important to decide now when they should take the exam.

It certainly is bittersweet for me. I am a Spring-Ford graduate and you always want to see your alma matter win. But it is always good to give Spring-Ford a victory.

I think the people, the working-man people, made a statement here, that you don't have to be a college graduate to be a good Canadian.

I think the graduate students in science take these rankings very seriously. We work tirelessly here to provide an individual education to our students. If anything, we've gotten better. We certainly have not gotten worse.

I think the Gore campaign has made an enormous issue of the fact that George is not smart, ... Did Al Gore graduate from law school, did Al Gore graduate from divinity school? No.

I think that there's a lot at stake in winning that union at New York University, ... It was the only graduate student union at a private university, and I think winning back that union and protecting that contract gives graduate students at other institutions the hope that they can have a union too.

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

It grew out of a desire of the business schools, principally Harvard and Stanford, to get real-time work experience for people prior to the time they got to graduate school.

I think we are unique, ... If I'm a kid I'd say 'Let's see, I've got great weather, great facilities, I've got a chance to play in the NFL and I am going to graduate and I've got a chance to play for the national championship.'

It is not surprising in the least that a president from Texas would nominate an SMU graduate to the Supreme Court, ... It would have been surprising for JFK.

Laura Bush is not the traditionalist that I think a lot of people thought she was going to be. She has a graduate degree and a very serious lifelong interest in early childhood development.

Later, after flying in the Navy for four or five years, spending some time on an aircraft carrier, I applied to and was accepted in a program where I went to graduate school first and then to the Naval Test Pilots School.

I went to school at Colorado State. I finished my degree in pre-medicine and nutrition with aspirations of actually going to graduate school in medicine, which I didn't.

I went to graduate school with zero expectation. I kind of backed into it. I wanted to go back to school because I felt gaps in my literary background. I studied mostly twentieth-century English literature in college, so I thought, 'Maybe I'll go back for my writing.'

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.' The thought that someone could think they'd write a whole long thing... I could only see twelve pages ahead. But then I realized that if you could see twelve more after that, you can start.

Our price per credit hour is about $110-$115 less than the state schools. So you go to a state institution and try to get into graduate school, it's probably about $350 per credit hour so you're talking about a thousand dollars per course as opposed to $690 per course that we have here. So we think we have a viable product and there is a viable market out there for our product. And we think we're doing the right thing. We're upholding the standards of the institution, just looks good all around.

Our season was never in jeopardy, ... Rebecca is a graduate assistant. She said some things out of context and with emotion. She said some things that she regrets.

Our student-athletes graduate at a higher rate than the rest of general student population.

Our father constantly stressed how vital a quality education was for us to realize and accomplish our dreams. With our parents direction and guidance, we were we both able to attend and graduate from college. But without a doubt, our best education came from the example they set for us on a daily basis.

Over a lifetime, a college graduate earns about $1 million more on average than someone with only a high school diploma.

Our board chairman, a citizen of Dubai, went to Temple University. Our Chief Executive Officer also a citizen of Dubai, is a graduate of the University of Arizona.

Our league took a hit from people early because we had so many players graduate and so many players leave early (for the NBA), but this was a league with a lot of young talent and with some outstanding coaches. Our league improved as the year went along, and with two teams in the Final Four, I think we've proven ourselves to be a lot better league than people thought we'd be.

My Ph.D. is in operations research. I was interested in making things work better and using mathematics to help do that. So operations research is what I studied as an undergraduate and graduate student.

My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.

My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.

Matt, of course, worked three years for us as a graduate assistant and I am well aware of his background and talents. I always try and keep an eye on young, talented coaches, and it was an easy decision to hire Matt. He'll hit the ground running with his previous experience at Northwestern and with me. We're all excited to have Matt back as a part of our staff.

Marching is a big thing for me and my family. I'll be the first person in my family to graduate from college, so it is a big thing to march.

I wonder if it's going to be a test too far. They're changing the length, the range and the format all at once, so it could prompt the same kind of backlash among students and admissions offices alike as the new SAT has. It's true that the old test didn't do a good job of predicting graduate school performance, but when you add in everything everybody asks for, you get a camel ù a camel being a horse built by committee.

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

I tell recruits, if you come to Colgate, you're going to be taught by outstanding faculty, not graduate assistants. There are a lot of professors who, once they get to know the student-athletes in their classroom, are going to develop a relationship with them.

I think I can accomplish my goals and graduate in three years in a science program,

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate school at NYU and was very judgmental.

I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.

I think, for the moment being, I just want to graduate with my degree and do something with golf.

Just about every graduate coming out of college has Linux experience at some level,

That was something my husband wanted and used to say, 'You can play golf, but you're absolutely going to graduate college.'

I wasn't handed college or graduate school or anything else on a silver platter. I had to work very hard, but I did it because I wanted to. That's the real key to happiness. I think unhappy people are those who feel that circumstances are forcing them into a pattern. Happy people are not slaves to the system.

I would like to try and get a graduate assistant position after I get my masters. Coaches from other teams tell me that they were a manager and then a graduate assistantthey were once in my spot.

I would agree that the U.S. educational system, especially at the undergraduate and graduate levels, needs some work, but in the meantime, we seem to be cranking out people who are capable,

Mike has done a tremendous job over the past two seasons as a graduate assistant on both sides of the ball. His familiarity with and loyalty toward the program make him a great asset to Miami football as he takes over as our tight ends coach.

Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?

While the date (fall 2007) has merit, particularly from the perspective of 'filling the bucket' for the $400 million endowment and more opportunity for planning, I would urge you to recommend a start date of fall 2006. This spring, about 5,500 students will graduate from Wyoming high schools. Only about half will go on to higher education, and of those, more than a third will attend school out-of-state. Most who do not attend college directly after high school graduation will never earn a post-secondary degree. Many who go to college out-of-state will be lost to Wyoming forever.

When students graduate from college, the first rule of thumb is to create a budget and stick to it. Be sure to make your student loan payments on time, every time.

We need to raise the skills and educational levels of the community to attract new players and support the creation of a homegrown cluster of new enterprises, whether they are graduate companies like Seed Animation or 13 Strides or social enterprises in the community.

We jumped from our seats and applauded. It was a happy moment. To practice law in any state, you must graduate from an accredited law school.

When I was 22 years old, I thought girls would like me if I wrote a novel. I spent so much time writing that I was thrown out of graduate school.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

We can provide incentives for people to graduate in math and science and engineering and the different kind of technological industries that we need them to graduate in.

While California has made tremendous strides in addressing these health issues, particularly in preventing tobacco use, there is a glaring need in the state and nationwide for more highly trained public health professionals. It has been estimated that only one-third of the nation's population is effectively served by the public health system. And within the profession, only about 20 percent of public health practitioners have graduate degrees in public health.

We are thrilled to get a guy like Will, who has a strong arm and outstanding athletic ability. For a quarterback to graduate early and come in for winter conditioning and spring practice is a huge advantage.

We have always felt that the fellowships in question were but a small part of an overall graduate program that provides opportunities for thousands of our students, from every imaginable cultural background, to pursue graduate degrees while working at Southern Illinois University.

We know that we have a big responsibility to the parents, to the students, and to the public taxpayers to make sure that our students are having the opportunity to graduate in a timely fashion.