Top 123 Diploma Quotes & Sayings

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

They let me do my diploma from home, but I always knew I was destined to do something creative, so I didn't care.

You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

I've done multiple diploma courses and have finally amalgamated it all into what is called the 'Happy Soul' workshops.

When you have a brilliant idea, nobody is going to ask to see your diploma.

Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a degree in the physical sciences or engineering in the U.S.

I am a Kathak dancer, and have got an advanced diploma in it.

My diploma was in film and videography and I then went to a film academy in New York, where I trained in acting as well.

I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma.

I did my BMS from Bhavan's College in Mumbai and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and mass communication.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Staple a green card to their diploma - welcome to the United States of America! We want those people in our country.

Graduation is a big deal-bigger than getting a hole-in-one while golfing. People might think you're lying about the hole-in-one, but when you graduate, you get a diploma.

In football, anything can happen. You can have an injury, and then you won't play at the highest level anymore. If you don't have a diploma, what then?

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

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

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree.

That's the best gift you can give to your parents - a diploma.

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

I stopped going to high school when I met Big Pun, which wasn't the smartest thing. So I never got my diploma. When I went to prison, it's mandatory to get your GED if you don't have a high school diploma.

If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma.

An arts degree is like a diploma in origami. And about as much use.

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.

The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

My parents wanted to make sure I at least had the high school diploma, so I got a GED.

If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.

One thing that is clear to me: as a society, we put way too much emphasis on a slip of paper - that college diploma.

There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

I'd done a sports diploma at college and three years studying carpentry, it made me appreciate things. But I honestly think it helped not going down the academy route. I had to work harder for everything.

Surrealism is my stamp. I have a post graduate diploma in theatre and I was introduced to this concept and it stuck by me because it speaks of the hypocritical nature of the reality. We are something more inside and I want to portray the pluralities in thought.

You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when you get your diploma you get the rewards of success.

Today, you have achieved something special, something only 92 percent of Americans your age will ever know: a college diploma. That’s right, with your college diploma you now have a crushing advantage over 8 percent of the workforce. I'm talking about dropout losers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg.

A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.

My school almost lost its accreditation. If that had happened, my diploma wouldn't have been worth anything.

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

When I was girl, you could still get certain jobs if you didn't have a diploma.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.

Even if I make a fortune in films, I want to have a diploma so I don't finish life as a little clerk.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realized I'd become an actor.

I'm from a family of teachers. My father would drown me in the bathtub if my daughter didn't graduate from college. I don't care who she is or what she does. Just get the diploma.

I don't have my diploma from the University of Nebraska hanging on my office wall, and I don't have my diploma from Columbia up there either-but I do have my Dale Carnegie graduation certificate proudly displayed.

A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.

I went to Northampton College of Further Education. I left there - when I was 16, I left Kingsthorpe Upper - and I went and did a diploma in performing arts, so it was my start in the training process to becoming an actor.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.

That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.