Top 457 Graduating Seniors Quotes & Sayings

It's crucial that we keep care for our seniors a priority.

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.

However, the Medicare prescription drug benefit has changed, and if the nearly 3,000 seniors I have met through 12 town halls can represent a sample of opinion, many seniors do not yet understand the prescription drug program and do not plan to sign up for coverage.

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

After graduating in 1973 I went into the programming field.

Medicare is a promise we made to seniors more than four decades ago. When President Johnson signed Medicare into law, one in three seniors lived in poverty. Half of seniors had no health coverage at all.

It is important to watch and learn from the seniors in the team.

I'm not saying all seniors should be running a city or running a business, but I am saying seniors are good for a lot more than simply running a bath, baking cookies or babysitting grandchildren.

I think our seniors deserve a modern medical system.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

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

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.

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

You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.

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

I am proud that we worked so hard to improve seniors' lives.

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

Recently, lobbyists for the pharmaceutical industry wrote a prescription drug bill that increased their profits and did nothing to help seniors. The result: seniors are stuck with a confusing prescription drug plan that does little to help them with their costs.

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

Our seniors shouldn't have to check their stock balance before they can get knee surgery.

When I ran for attorney general, I promised to protect our seniors - and just look at what we've accomplished. From stopping scammers and cracking down on abuse to fighting for lower prescription drug costs, I've always put our seniors first.

The Harper Government is committed to ensuring that seniors have the skills they need to make solid financial choices. Seniors today face an increasingly complex financial marketplace, and it will take the combined efforts of public and private sector organizations to help seniors navigate the many financial choices they face. The start of Financial Literacy Month is an excellent opportunity to thank the Canadian Bankers Association and encourage other private sector organizations to take an active role in providing financial literacy support to Canada's seniors.

You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors.

Seniors vote, and that is why we have, you know, Medicare since the 1960s for seniors, and we didn't have a national healthcare program for children, even though it's a lot more cost-effective to deal with children than with seniors.

Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.

I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity.

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.

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.

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

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

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

More women are graduating from college now than men.

I will never, ever balance a budget on the backs of our seniors.

I joined politics at the behest of my seniors and considered it my duty to do so.

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

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

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

Working with seniors like Anil Kapoor makes you learn so much.

I fear very much for our kids, for low income people and for seniors.

It is vital that we communicate to seniors their options regarding prescription drug assistance.

After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

And if you like socialized medicine, you will love this government bureaucracy under [then-Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee] Al Gore that will actually cost seniors who get $500 a year in prescription drugs right now - it will end up costing seniors more money and take away control from those seniors.

More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.

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

Generally, when I am working, I tend to learn from my seniors and juniors.

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

There was a time not too long ago when American seniors were too often forced to go without food, medicine, and quality healthcare. But thanks to transformative programs like Social Security, most seniors in this country are provided the opportunity to live with the stability and peace of mind they have earned and deserve.

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

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

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

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

It's dishonest to say we're doing everything we can for our seniors when there is so much more we can.

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

Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't mean that seniors have to sit this season out. By taking a few precautions, seniors can enjoy winter safely and securely.

It has been a top priority of Congress to reduce the drug costs of all seniors.

There were eight women in my graduating class.

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