#graduation

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out. ↗

— Hamilton Jordan

#albert einstein #bad #bad people #before #danger

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

#ago #down #end #four #go

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

#been #educated #educated people #find #graduates

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

#age #children #college #compared #families

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) ↗

— Teacher David McCullough

#commencement #graduation #read #reading #you-are-not-special

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#able #accountant #accounting #been #certified

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#back #burner #college #dream #early

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#another #art #college #designer #dropped

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#basic #because #by the time #changed #day

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal. ↗

— Scott Hamilton

#class #games #gold #gold medal #graduated