Graduates quotes
88 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work."
"Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you."
"Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement."
"raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?"
"I'll never graduate from collagen."
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"I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry."
"I graduated in 2009, which - if you think back to where the economy was at that time - was an interesting time to graduate."
"I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate."
"The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book."
"After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count."
"Make glorious and fantastic mistakes."
"It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's."
"Failing to graduate a populace that values reading has long-term consequences for everyone."
"I accidentally forgot to graduate from college."
"I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me."
"I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen."
"Shakespeare I love, but for an English graduate, I'm incredibly badly read."
"As a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. Today my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift - a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful."
"I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system."
"The educational system in the US was a highly predictable victim of the neoliberal reaction, guided by the maxim of "private affluence and public squalor." Funding for public education has sharply declined. As higher education is driven to a business model in accord with neoliberal doctrine, administrative bureaucracy has sharply increased at the expense of faculty and students. Cost-cutting leads to hyper-exploitation of the more vulnerable, creating a new precariat of graduate students and adjuncts surviving on a bare pittance, replacing tenured faculty."
"Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction."
