• "When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential." - Christine Gregoire Tweet
• "One half who graduate from college never read another book." - G. M. Trevelyan 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
• "When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'" - Francis Ford Coppola Tweet
• "I have actually five honorary degrees." - Katherine Dunham Tweet
• "Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia." - Julie Taymor Tweet
• "A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick." - Moira Kelly Tweet
• "It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor." - James D'arcy Tweet
• "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 Tweet
• "My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school." - Jillian Bach Tweet