If you had to have a diploma or a GED to collect unemployment, you'd see a lot more kids staying in school. — Wayne Knight
So basically, I graduated high school a semester early. — Jessica Szohr
I tried to go to college, I barely got out of high school. — Dana White
And for those of you that dropped out of high school, remember the famous phrase: 'Do you want fries with that?' — Bobby Heenan
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out. — Mark Twain
Made it through high school, went to the University of Minnesota. — Dave Winfield
The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail. — Tommy Chong
The best decision I ever made was to drop out of school. — KSI
We don't stop going to school when we graduate. — Carol Burnett
A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma. — Joyce Meyer
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. — Barry White
After graduating from high school, I worked at an advertising agency as a designer. — Akira Toriyama
A college degree is not a sign that one is a finished product but an indication a person is prepared for life. — Edward Malloy
I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. — T Bone Burnett
You may leave school, but it never leaves you. — Andy Partridge
High School Graduation Quotes
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss
Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. — Neil Gaiman
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. — Ella Fitzgerald
Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated. — Erma Bombeck
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair and adult.
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. — Paul A. Freund
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. — Maureen Forrester
Diploma Quotes
Where most men work for degrees after their names, we work for one before our names: 'St.' It's a much more difficult degree to attain. It takes a lifetime, and you don't get your diploma until you're dead. — Mother Angelica
There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist. — Kara Walker
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. — Eartha Kitt
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life
That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person. — Jimmy Iovine
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse. — Ed Koch
At the end of your lives you will not be judged by academic successes, the degrees or diplomas earned, the positions held, the material wealth acquired, or power and prestige, but rather on the basis of what you have become as persons and what you are in conduct and character. — Howard W. Hunter
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
I invite you as a graduate to commit yourself, whatever your profession, to assist in building communities and to devote yourselves and the gifts you've been given, including your diploma from this school, to serving your communities. — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas. — Ronnie Van Zant
If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity. — Javier Milei
The way my brain processes information is quite odd. I mean, I have Attention Deficit Disorder and another learning disability I can't even spell. I don't even have a high school diploma. I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper. — Ron White
Graduating High School Quotes
Success is the best revenge for anything. Keep ya head down and work hard to achieve. — Ed Sheeran
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role. — Sarah Chalke
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o'clock. — Woody Allen
Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away, with your head held high is dignity.
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch
I wanted to be a marine biologist my whole life until I graduated high school. — Cobie Smulders
Children are not a distraction from more inportant work. They are the most important work.
You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous! — Gabby Douglas
At 20, I realized that I could not possibly adjust to a feminine role as conceived by my father and asked him permission to engage in a professional career. In eight months I filled my gaps in Latin, Greek and mathematics, graduated from high school, and entered medical school in Turin. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
Always be a first-rate version of yourself. — Audrey Hepburn
I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. — Ray Bradbury
High School Dropout Quotes
I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there. — Hilary Swank
Eighty-two percent of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high-school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or to be dead. — Kamala Harris
Where you see immigration competition play out most clearly is among high school dropouts. I'd say there's clearly immigrant competition among the least-skilled workers, but natives are a shrinking share while immigrants are a growing share. — Jared Bernstein
It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult.
Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be. — William J. Bernstein
The University of North Carolina-Greensboro has ordered a Christian club to allow non-Christians as leaders. While we're at it, let's put high school dropouts in charge of the University. — Fred Thompson
High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue. — Cedric Richmond
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter. So if you get in my face, I'm going to fight you. — David Ayer
I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me. — Adam Oates
Most poor people in America are white. The family breakdown issue is an issue that crosses all sorts of racial lines. High school dropout issues. But because of the flow of events which involve the racial component, we've sometimes confused racial issues with other issues which are trans-racial. — David Brooks
Before I moved to Brooklyn to pursue music, I was a high school dropout and speed freak who'd been living with her dealer boyfriend in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at 16. — Britta Phillips
Good High School Graduation Quotes
Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. — Nora Ephron
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices." — Bill Cosby
It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices. — Bill Cosby
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often. — Bill Cosby
Your dynamic with everyone will change when you graduate high school. High school is a pit of despair. It's a swirling tornado of insecurities and there's really nothing good about it. — Kristen Bell
I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married. — Debbie Macomber
The difference between school and life? In school, you're thought a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last position was about $122,000. For a guy without a high school diploma, that's pretty good. — Edward Snowden
Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good. — Chad Michael Murray
I was an educated girl. I'd done very well in school. I had a good point average and graduated from USC as an English teacher. My dad didn't even finish high school. — Marlo Thomas
High School Commencement Quotes
Nothing worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde
Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself. — Silas House
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Be yourself, it's the best thing you can do. — Greyson Chance
Think of it as your ticket to change the world. — Tom Brokaw
Life has a very simple plot: first you're here and then you're not. — Eric Idle
Keep your head and standards high!
Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along. — Stephen Colbert
Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning. — Jennifer Love Hewitt
Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun. — Joss Whedon
High School Quotes
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. — Kurt Vonnegut
Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance. — Narendra Modi
Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons. — Michelle Alexander
When I was in high school, I liked to pretend that I was a Russian foreign exchange student. I would do things like go into a pizza restaurant and tell them Id never had pizza before, and theyd bring me into the kitchen and show me how to make an American pizza. Its really fun. — Misha Collins
The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools. — Anna Quindlen
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere. — Tim McGraw
Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. — A. Whitney Brown
I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour. — Monique Coleman
I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition. — Jim Brown
Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions. — Jim Henson
High School Class Quotes
It is one thing to take as a given that approximately 70 percent of an entering high school freshman class will not attend college, but to assign a particular child to a curriculum designed for that 70 percent closes off for that child the opportunity to attend college. — James S. Coleman
There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college. — Jill Scott
I have zero ideas how to use a comma, punctuation, or spell 82% of the English language. I used to edit videos in the back of my high school English class. — MrBeast
I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school. — Chad Smith
In high school, I taught dance classes for 3-year-olds up to 16-year-olds, so between that and some bat mitzvah money, I saved up a pretty good nest egg to move to L.A. — Dianna Agron
I think it goes back to my high school days. In computer class, the first assignment was to write a program to print the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. Instead, I wrote a program that would steal passwords of students. My teacher gave me an A. — Kevin Mitnick
I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear “no,” and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject. — Gavin de Becker
I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot. — Sayings
I joined an acting class in my junior year in high school. I'd always wanted to try it. — Rainn Wilson
In high school, I was the class comedian as opposed to the class clown. The difference is the class clown is the guy who drops his pants at the football game, the class comedian is the guy who talked him into it. — Billy Crystal
I'll show you Obama's birth certificate when you show me Sarah Palin's high school diploma. — Bill Maher
Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money-in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one. — Bel Kaufman
Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new. — Dick Gregory
Currently, only 70 percent of our high school students earn diplomas with their peers, and less than one-third of our high school students graduate prepared for success in a four-year college. — Ruben Hinojosa
Competence in heterosexuality, or at least the appearance or pretense of such competence, is as much a public affair as a privateone. Thus, going steady is a high school diploma in heterosexuality; engagement a BA; marriage an MA; and children a Ph.D. — Thomas Szasz
The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong. — Rick Santorum
Before I got Doctor Who, I went to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. I went back to take the final grade exam, which is the grade you have to take before you can take the teachers diploma. — Sarah Sutton
My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher. — Dwight Yoakam
If grade inflation continues, a college bachelor's degree will have just as much credibility as a high school diploma. — Walter E. Williams
The people who run the major banks have MBAs and wear suits. And when those people in suits come to the homes of people who don't have a high school diploma, don't even speak English, and offer them a home at zero percent down, that doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense. — Ramin Bahrani
Most green-collar jobs are middle-skill jobs. That means they require more education that a high-school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. — Van Jones
The U.S. Census Bureau acknowledged this fact when it reported that those with a bachelor's degree earn on average $1 million more over their lifetime than those with only a high school diploma. — Elijah Cummings
I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me. — Elayne Boosler
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with Lenin, who thought success in business was a matter of luck, when in reality it is a matter of genius. — James Cook
Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs. — Rachel Grady
I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as a matter of fact, it has nothing to offer them. Suppose they do get a high school diploma that is meaningful. What kind of job is awaiting them. The jobs that used to be available to working class people are not there as a result of the de-industrialization of this economy. — Angela Davis
Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test. — Megan McCafferty
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