Tony Cardenas - Truancy rates are directly correlated to low graduation rates.
Jens Lekman - 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.
Bob Iger - If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.
Clint Smith - School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
Ruben Hinojosa - 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.
Buddy Valastro - Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
Karl Jaspers - Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Jean Paul - Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
George Harrison - All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
Aimee Bender - I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
Samuel Johnson - The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
Lewis Carroll - There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Adele - I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
Sammy Hagar - Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
E. Joseph Cossman - The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
Norman Rockwell - I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
Sam Levenson - It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
Sloane Crosley - I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
Kristin Armstrong - I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.
Anne Lamott - The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
Robert Staughton Lynd - Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
Ellen Glasgow - It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Art Buchwald - This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
Loretta Lynn - My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Tommy Caldwell - I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.
Bruce Eric Kaplan - Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
Chris Gethard - I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation.
Nate Dogg - Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.
Vernon Law - They couldn't sign me until after I graduated, but right after graduation day, I had nine different organizations there wanting to sign me.
Mohanlal - I was into movies before my graduation results got out. In fact, I was on location of a movie when they came.
Tony Finau - I had a chance to win $2 million, a week after high school graduation, and if I turned pro, the sponsor was going to financially support me.
Frances Arnold - I studied mechanical engineering at Princeton and worked on solar energy after graduation.
Stephanie Ruhle - I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.
Sharmila Tagore - I dropped out of college before graduation. I opted to begin work as an actress.
Vishwajeet Pradhan - I have a good grounding in yoga. I have been doing it from my graduation days.
Moira Kelly - A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.
Olivia Wilde - I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
R. Lee Ermey - 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.
John Katzman - After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month.
Jill Scott - I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
Uday Kiran - I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.
Kevin Spacey - After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
Bruce Eric Kaplan - I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
Tim O'Brien - 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.
Herb Ritts - Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
Bebe Rexha - I was the girl that didn't go to prom or my graduation because I was too busy working with producers and making music.
Jasmin Bhasin - I did my graduation in hospitality in Jaipur. When I was working, I started getting offers in modeling and did a few South films.
Dick Cheney - From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Campbell Brown - The government sets targets for increased four-year high school graduation rates as part of its agenda for improving Americans' health.
Mack Brown - All of us have to win games. Whether we like it or not, the graduation rates and all the things people are talking about aren't as important as winning.