Top 190 Graduating Quotes & Sayings

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.

Graduating from high school is certainly a good idea, but it's no longer much protection against poverty.

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes.

At a time when the average student is graduating from a four-year college $27,000 in debt, when hundreds of thousands of capable young people no longer see college as an option because of high costs and when the U.S. is falling further and further behind our economic competitors in terms of the percentage of young people graduating from college, no agreement should be passed which, over a period of years, makes a bad situation worse and will make college even less affordable than it is today.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

It's so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

Eight months after graduating from Ryerson, there I was in West Berlin working with Marlene Dietrich and David Bowie and Kim Novak.

More women are graduating from college now than men.

I did regret not graduating high school, but I made a point of going back and getting my GED later. It was important for my kids.

I moved to L.A. straight out of graduating my arts high school and worked three jobs to afford living while taking acting classes and auditioning often.

Graduating at the age of 21 was a wonderful age to hopefully start a career.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

When I went to Paris after graduating high school, I saw a model who was 12 years old without any supervision. That wouldn't happen in the acting world.

About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.

I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class I had like 92 people.

Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'

When I was 18, graduating high school, I was going to the University of Missouri.

Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating.

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

When I came to the CIA in the mid-'90s, our graduating class of case officers was unbelievably low. Now, after years of rebuilding, our training programs and putting our best efforts to recruit the most talented men and women, we are graduating more clandestine officers than at any time in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency.

The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.

At 17 I was graduating and didn't know what to do. I was seriously contemplating going to Melbourne to play Aussie football.

Students graduating with high debt encounter difficulties in qualifying for home and automobile loans.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

Whole class of filmmakers, they're all graduating to a new level of filmmaking, which I think is awesome.

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

Part of the American myth is that people who are handed the skin of a dead sheep at graduating time think that it will keep their minds alive forever.

Everyday people are graduating from universities with crippling debt, stifling their opportunity for financial mobility, that is what's broken with this country.

After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

I went to college for fashion and, after graduating, got a job in Operations at Zara, learning the ins and outs so I could one day start my own clothing brand.

When I was graduating from college, the things I valued most were family, faith, and philanthropy. I refer to them as the three f's, phonetically speaking.

Maybe you're graduating from fireballs to lightning bolts," Adrian suggested. "I bet it'd be a lot like throwing ninja stars. Except, well, you could incinerate people.

I'm actually graduating early. I got a lot of work done already. Being home schooled, I have had a lot of tutors help me.

Asian countries produce eight times as many engineering bachelors as the United States, and the number of U.S. students graduating at the masters and PhD levels in these areas is declining.

There were eight women in my graduating class.

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

There were a hundred people in my graduating class. I wouldn't have changed it for the world.

When I was graduating college with an economics degree, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I was kind of scared. So I was just trying everything.

I've met graduating college kids facing loan payments and a bad economy, and they are worried that they won't be able to get a job. This is not the way America needs to be.

I've grown up with the same people my whole life. I've had the same classmates from elementary all the way through graduating.

Graduating from college and starting your life as an adult is a giant transition no matter what.

I was the same way after graduating with a degree in education. I started to teach and I was wondering: do I really know how to teach?

BJ Novak gets the Perseverance Award for graduating from Harvard and being unemployed for the entire plane ride to Los Angeles.

In my family, graduating and getting your bachelor's is just the beginning. It's only expected. You're underachieving if you don't strive for more than that.

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

After graduating from National School of Drama, I started doing theatre in Delhi. But there was not much money in Hindi theatre.

My first job after graduating was working with Robert Zemeckis. I got a job a week after graduating and moving to L.A. So I got to work on 'What Lies Beneath' and 'Castaway' as a PA, which is basically like a gopher.

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.

You know what they call the fellow who finishes last in his medical school graduating class? They call him 'Doctor.'

I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.

61% of graduating teens have had sex, 37% will eventually have sex, and 2% become statisticians.