• "I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree." - Shannon Lucid Tweet
• "We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries." - H. G. Wells Tweet
• "You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world." - Tom Brokaw Tweet
• "If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation." - Renee Olstead Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened." - Ted Nelson Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college." - Mark Kennedy Tweet
• "At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers." - Peter Jurasik Tweet
• "Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated." - Erma Bombeck Tweet