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" Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree. "

Ruth Ann Minner

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" For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. "

Patrick J. Kennedy

" I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer. "

" Mentors provide professional networks, outlets for frustration, college and career counseling, general life advice, and most importantly, an extra voice telling a student they are smart enough and capable enough to cross the stage at graduation and land their first paycheck from a career pathway job. "

Gerald Chertavian

" It's my goal to make martial arts compulsory for girls in school. In China, you have to do two years of martial arts' training without which you cannot get a graduation degree. "

" One half who graduate from college never read another book. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it. "

" I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them. "

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" The federal government requires that its loans be paid back within 10 years of graduation, and Harvard has pegged its loans to the same 10-year timetable. Yet despite Harvard's low default rate, the idea of years of loan debt is daunting for some students even before it's time to pay back. "

David Fahrenthold

" Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do. "

Daniel Greenberg

" After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers. "

" Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates. "

" I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. "

" At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. "

" You are graduating from college. That means that this is the first day of the last day of your life. No, that's wrong. This is the last day of the first day of school. Nope, that's worse. This is a day. "

" Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets. "

" I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts. "

" The day after my high school graduation in 1952, I headed to Alaska. I was 17. I started out greasing equipment, then became a heavy-crane operator. I made and saved good money there for two years. "

Dennis Washington

" Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates. "

" We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'. "

" The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. "

" I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. "

" Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. "

" I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it. "

" I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college. "

" The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" After graduation, I moved to Los Angeles to do more theater, not realizing there is very little theater in L.A. It was a lucky mistake, though, because after just 2 1/2 months of waiting tables, my TV and film career really took off. "

Nicholas Gonzalez

" North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand? "

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

" This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated! "

" If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research. "