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" Right after graduation, I married Samuel Fisher Babbitt, an academic administrator. I spent the next ten years in Connecticut, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C., raising our children, Christopher, Tom, and Lucy. "

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" 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. "

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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. "

" At Columbia Law School, my professor of constitutional law and federal courts, Gerald Gunther, was determined to place me in a federal court clerkship, despite what was then viewed as a grave impediment: On graduation, I was the mother of a 4-year-old child. "

" I have a good cry once in a while; it's such a great release. Or it could be a cry of joy - watching your child being born or your child walking across a graduation stage. "

" I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music. "

" I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. "

" School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration. "

" I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day. "

" I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. "

" I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed. "

" 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. "

" In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate. "

" Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics. "

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

" If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation. "

" When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. "

" Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. "

Douglas Wilson

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" After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression. "

Andy Behrman

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Graduation

" I went to Legoland in Denmark when I was five, I think, but I went to Germany when I was 17 to have a little adventure after graduation. "

" Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. "

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

" Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. "

" Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. "

" At a very young age, my beloved mother passed away from leukemia, forcing my father to become a single dad. Rather than coddle me, shelter me, or do things for me, he taught me to 'Make the Case' for everything in life - from my first job to a graduation trip I wanted. "

" One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them. "

" At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers. "

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

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

" While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. "