• "Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate." - Alexis Herman Tweet
• "The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college." - Tony Hillerman Tweet
• "I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back." - Fred Allen Tweet
• "When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas." - M. H. Abrams Tweet
• "I have actually five honorary degrees." - Katherine Dunham Tweet
• "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know." - T. S. Eliot Tweet
• "I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one." - Jim Jarmusch Tweet
• "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." - Jon Secada Tweet
• "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars." - Elbert Hubbard Tweet
• "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 Tweet