Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Murphy

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

Chris Matthews

If you want to play a game, go to where it's played and find a way to get in. Things happen when you get in the game.

Gordon Brown

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good.

Herb Ritts

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

Jillian Bach

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

Jim Jarmusch

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

George H. W. Bush

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money as your dog.

Irvine Welsh

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.

Gloria Stuart

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.

Gloria Steinem

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.

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.

Billy Graham

People are the stocks into which we are to invest our time ... the best of all investments you can make is to help people come to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. You can make a commitment right here and now ... I'm asking you today not to graduate but commence a new life for God every step of the way.

Conan O'Brien

Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

Paul Simon

Time it was And what a time it was, it was A time of innocence A time of confidences Long ago it must be I have a photograph Preserve your memories They're all that's left you