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Mark Kennedy on graduation
Author: Mark Kennedy“I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.” -Mark Kennedy
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Parker Stevenson on graduation
Author: Parker Stevenson“I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.” -Parker Stevenson
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Simon Newcomb on graduation
Author: Simon Newcomb“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.” -Simon Newcomb
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Claire Danes on graduation
Author: 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.” -Claire Danes
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Neil Simon on graduation
Author: Neil Simon“You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.” -Neil Simon
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Jim Evans on graduation
Author: 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.” -Jim Evans
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Emma Bonino on graduation
Author: Emma Bonino“The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.” -Emma Bonino
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Daniel Greenberg on graduation
Author: Daniel Greenberg“Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.” -Daniel Greenberg
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Jim Jarmusch on graduation
Author: Jim Jarmusch“I didn’t get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.” -Jim Jarmusch
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Sara Paretsky on graduation
Author: Sara Paretsky“I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.” -Sara Paretsky
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Ruby Wax on graduation
Author: Ruby Wax“College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.” -Ruby Wax
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George Weinberg on graduation
Author: George Weinberg“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
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Gloria Stuart on graduation
Author: 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.” -Gloria Stuart
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Clay Aiken on graduation
Author: Clay Aiken“I did get a degree in special education.” -Clay Aiken
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Laurie Anderson on graduation
Author: Laurie Anderson“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.” -Laurie Anderson
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Patrick J. Kennedy on graduation
Author: Patrick J. Kennedy“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.” -Patrick J. Kennedy
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Irvine Welsh on graduation
Author: Irvine Welsh“I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.” -Irvine Welsh
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John Keegan on graduation
Author: John Keegan“I don’t look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.” -John Keegan
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Katherine Dunham on graduation
Author: Katherine Dunham“I have actually five honorary degrees.” -Katherine Dunham
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Scott Hamilton on graduation
Author: Scott Hamilton“I graduated a the top of my class in the ’84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.” -Scott Hamilton
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Fiona Apple on graduation
Author: Fiona Apple“I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I’m sorry, you have to take driver’s ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.” -Fiona Apple
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Clive James on graduation
Author: Clive James“Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it’s in Hamburger Technology.” -Clive James
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Carol P. Christ on graduation
Author: Carol P. Christ“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
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Bobby Scott on graduation
Author: Bobby Scott“It is virtually impossible to compete in today’s global economy without a college degree.” -Bobby Scott
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Richard King on graduation
Author: Richard King“I’m not impressed by someone’s degree… I’m impressed by them making movies.” -Richard King