A Quote by William A. Henry III

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

William A. Henry III

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William A. Henry III
American - Critic
January 14, 1950 - June 28, 1994

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Pete Townshend

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

Jason Fried

By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.

Faith Salie

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

K. A. Applegate

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Danny Glover

A high school diploma will no longer be sufficient. But that post secondary education does not have to be a four-year university or a four-year college. It can be career technical education, vocational education, community college.

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny, and materially hasten the destruction of the best design for self-government yet devised by the minds of men. Its passage will mark one of the darkest days in history

Strom Thurmond

These people in the establishment have been telling us they're the ones to fix everything and everything they've tried to fix, they've botched - TARP, the recession fix such as the stimulus bill. Look at the college - college education is an impediment because of how much it costs. A college education is no longer a step up.

Rush Limbaugh

Cinema was my rite of passage.

John Singleton

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Louise Erdrich

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

Bob Seger

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

Craig Brewer

It is getting to the point where the mark of international distinction and service to humanity is no longer the Nobel Peace Price, but an espionage indictment from the US Department of Justice.

Julian Assange

The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day revelation. The Lord has placed His stamp of approval on both the keystone and the capstone.