Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Money

High School

School

Related Quotes:

" Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it. "

James Tobin

Great

Stress

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

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

" I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways. "

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

" It's not how much you spend, it's how you spend it. We have been putting a lot of money into education in the state of Nevada, and it's gotten us to 50th in the country in graduation rates. We needed more accountability in our system. "

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

" 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 was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. "

" 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. "

" I was given a new coat as a high school graduation gift. "

" A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. "

" Following graduation from high school in 1948, I attended Harvard University where I became a physics major. Having grown up in a small town, I found Harvard to be an enormously enriching experience. Students in my class came from all walks of life and from a great variety of geographical locations. "

" I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings. "

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Parents

Best

Best Friend

" Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together. "

" People always ask me for my secret. There isn't one. You've just got to keep a level head and stay away from greed, which is the worst thing that can happen to a successful person. "

Dennis Washington

Successful

Greed

" I graduated from the University of Whatever. "

" Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. "

Marian Wright Edelman

College

Life

Children

" I love boats. Anything that runs, anything mechanical. It's my God-given passion in life. "

" I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology. "

" 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. "

" Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. "

Faith Hill

Children

Good

" I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. "

" I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had. "

" One of the first times I ever performed in front of a big group of people was at my kindergarten graduation. I did, like, a Michael Jackson impersonation as, like, a five year old. I had the suit and blazer, the glove and the fedora, and I just performed a whole Michael Jackson song. I'm sure it was 'Smooth Criminal.' "

" 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. "