#grad

I'd always known that when you went through one of these doors, you went to another planet, and that that other planet might be so far away, you couldn't fly there in spaceship in a million years. Somehow, the whole thing had never seemed strange before today. ↗

— Mary G. Thompson

#kids-sci-fi #kids-science-fiction #middle-grade #middle-grade-sci-fi #middle-grade-science-fiction

Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history. ↗

— Callum Roberts

#environmental-conservation #environmental-degradation #environmentalism #oceans #environmentalism

Psychoanalysis is a terribly efficient instrument, and because it is more and more a prestigious instrument, we run the risk of using it with a purpose for which it was not made for, and in this way we may degrade it. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#degrade #efficient #his way #instrument #made

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. ↗

— Douglass North

#california #mediocre #record #say #undergraduate

My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education. ↗

— Spike Lee

#art #checks #children #class #college

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. ↗

— Al Lewis

#graduate #had #harvard #many #more

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#before #bit #business #degree #get

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me. ↗

— Maya Lin

#asian #asian american #below #black #female

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#been #brought #close #conduct #ever

While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#been #challenge #completely #connections #fading