Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Bowie

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

Cory Booker

First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart.

Adam Savage

There's few things that get you over your own crap more than working hard.

Amy Poehler

The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.

Richard King

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

A. A. Milne

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Clay Aiken

I did get a degree in special education.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

Alice Walker

Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

Anna Quindlen

Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only part of the first.

Alexis Herman

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

T. S. Eliot

The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this end alone would become only obscurantist. A Christian education must primarily teach people to be able to think in Christian categories.

Susan Sontag

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

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.

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.

Ruby Wax

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

Sugar Ray Leonard

Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities.

Steve Jobs

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Tig Notaro

When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.

Tom Brokaw

Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

Tobias Wolff

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Tim Duncan

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

Stephen Colbert

Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner.

Stephen Colbert

You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back.

Stephen Colbert

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

Tony Hillerman

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Spencer Johnson

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

Susan Jeffers

You're not a failure if you don't make it. You're a success because you tried.

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want.

Michael W. Smith

Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

Norm Crosby

My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary section.