Ayelet Waldman - I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.
Chloe Kim - I missed out on a few proms, homecomings, might miss my graduation. I wouldn't want it any other way... it's worth it.
Stephanie Ruhle - Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.
James D'arcy - It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
Jerry Moran - One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
Sara Paretsky - I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.
Frederick Reines - 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.
Emma Bonino - The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.
Christina Aguilera - I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.
James Tobin - Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.
Joe Baca - Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.
M. H. Abrams - When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
Faith Hill - 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.
Mark Kennedy - I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.
Jim Evans - My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.
Al McGuire - Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.
Gloria Stuart - When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Ted Nelson - In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Margo Jefferson - Melancholy' is prettier than 'depression'; it connotes a kind of nocturnal grace. Makes one feel more innocently beleaguered.
Steny Hoyer - But despite historic levels of obstruction, President Obama was able to bring the economy back from the verge of a second Great Depression.
Dorothy Hamill - My whole family, my father's side, there was a great deal of depression, and my mother's side as well.
Douglas Wilson - Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.
Elbert Hubbard - God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
James Madison - The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Marian Wright Edelman - Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Elizabeth Blackwell - 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.
John F. Kennedy - It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
Erma Bombeck - Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
Richard King - I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.
Henny Youngman - This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
Bobby Scott - It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.
Bobby Heenan - North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?
Jim Jarmusch - I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
Ted Nelson - So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
Martha Reeves - The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.
Ruth Ann Minner - Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.
Alexa Von Tobe - For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a 10 A.M. class is far too early.
Claire Danes - 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.
Andrew Solomon - I often say that the opposite of depression is not happiness but vitality.
Vidal Sassoon - I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.
Rosalynn Carter - My mother made all of our clothes, my friends' mothers made all of their clothes. This was the Depression.
Rick Springfield - You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.
Andrew Flintoff - I'll be fine, and suddenly I'll feel the depression coming on. It can start with the smallest thing.
Shirley Temple - I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.
Patty Duke - My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Gene Wilder - When I'm not working on something, I seem to go through periods of depression. It helps to keep busy.
Brooke Shields - Depression is so smart - it uses all your references and patterns.
Sloane Crosley - It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.
Peter Capaldi - The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.
Kay Redfield Jamison - There are scientists all around the world looking for the genes responsible for bipolar illness and major depression.