College Graduates Quotes - Page 4

• The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from 40 percent in 1992 to 31 percent ten years later.

  Charles Colson

  College, Average, Years

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• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

  Andy Rooney

  Home, Night, College

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you.

  Frank J. Fleming

  Attitude, College, Obamacare

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• You're college graduates now, so use your education. Remember: It's not who you know, it's whom.

  Joan Rivers

  College, Use, Who You Know

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• More women are graduating from college now than men.

  Mitch McConnell

  College, Men, Graduates

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• 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, Children, Grandmother

  "Spike Lee Interview IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON'T RISE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

  Alexis Herman

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess.

  Jon Krakauer

  College, Years, Parent

  "Into the Wild". Adventure, Biography, Drama, 2007.

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• College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.

  Paul Ryan

  Moving, College, Childhood

  Republican National Convention VP Nomination Acceptance, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Senior, College, Differences

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

  Marina Keegan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Opposite of Loneliness" by Marina Keegan, abcnews.go.com. May 30, 2012.

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• I'm not afraid of who I am. I'm not afraid to tell the world who I am. I'm Michael Sam, I'm a college graduate, I'm African-American and I'm gay.

  Michael Sam

  Gay, College, Who I Am

  "Mizzou's Michael Sam says he's gay". Interview with Chris Connelly, www.espn.com. February 11, 2014.

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