Diploma Quotes - Page 2

• That's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die.

  Frederik Pohl

  Life, Graduates, Learning Experience

  "Gateway". Book by Frederik Pohl, 1978.

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• Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall

  Drake

  Wall, School, Desire

  Song: Crew Love, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

  Vincent Price

  Mean, College, Thinking

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• 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

  Children, School, Kids

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• I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

  Flavor Flav

  Kids, School, Waiting

  "Flavor Flav heads back to high school" by James Hibberd, www.reuters.com. October 1, 2009.

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• We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mom, Jobs, Hard Work

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• Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

  Fanny Fern

  Doctors, Experience, Excellent

  Fanny Fern (1872). “Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.15

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• 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

  Teacher, Drama, School

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• Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.

  David Eddings

  College, Hands, Names

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• Our world is a college, events are teachers, happiness is the graduating point, character is the diploma God gives man.

  Newell Dwight Hillis

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  "A Man's Value to Society: Studies in Self Culture and Character".

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• Even though I am going to miss out on my prom or I am going to miss out on walking across stage to accept my diploma, that's OK to me because I know I will have other perks in life.

  Cheyenne Kimball

  Missing, Accepting, Prom

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Jobs, School

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  Jobs, School, Mean

  Van Jones (2009). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

  Richard Paul Evans

  Integrity, Men, Register

  Richard Paul Evans (1997). “The Letter”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

  Kid Rock

  Education, Smell, Aroma

  Song: American Bad Ass

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• You know what GED stands for? Good Enough Diploma.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, Ged

  "Bring the Pain". Documentary, Comedy, 1996.

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• By Mamun's time medical schools were extremely active in Baghdad. The first free public hospital was opened in Baghdad during the Caliphate of Haroon-ar-Rashid. As the system developed, physicians and surgeons were appointed who gave lectures to medical students and issued diplomas to those who were considered qualified to practice. The first hospital in Egypt was opened in 872 AD and thereafter public hospitals sprang up all over the empire from Spain and the Maghrib to Persia.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Islamic, School, Egypt

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• 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

  Crazy, School, Reality

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• You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

  David Lloyd George

  Graduation, Commitment, Two

  "Design for Power : The Struggle for the World". Book by Frederick Lewis Schuman, 1941.

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• History is filled with examples of men and women who rendered highly effective performance without the conventional badges of accomplishment in terms of certificates, diplomas, or degrees. Diplomas and tests are useful servants, but Congress has mandated the commonsense proposition that they are not to become masters of reality.

  Warren E. Burger

  Reality, Men, Degrees

  Griggs v. Duke Power Co., 401 U.S. 424, (432), 1971.

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• 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

  School, Intellectual, Curiosity

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• If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Writing, Math, College

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• 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

  Meaningful, Brother, Jobs

  Frontline Interview, www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• 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

  School, Careers, People

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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• 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

  Powerful, School, Men

  "Talking to Dick Gregory: Comedy, Selma and Cosby". Interview with Christopher Borrelli, www.chicagotribune.com. April 10, 2015.

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