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" 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

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" I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948. "

Daniel J. Evans

" 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. "

" My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could. "

George Weinberg

" It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world. "

Elizabeth Blackwell

" College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. "

" I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil. "

" 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 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. "

Raheem DeVaughn

" Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me. "

" So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened. "

" I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. "

Carol P. Christ

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

" 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

" When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas. "

" I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.' "

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

" I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs. "

" 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. "

Frederick Reines

" When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, and we believed her. "

Sheryl Sandberg

" My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs. "

" In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking. "

" When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. "

" I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion. "

" Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials. "

Harold E. Varmus

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

Bruce Eric Kaplan

" 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. "

Kimberly Guilfoyle

" 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. "

Natalie Babbitt