50 Quotes About Graduates


  • Author Samuel Alito
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    When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

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  • Author Stephen Vincent Benét
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    When I was in graduate school, my thesis included both poetry and essays. Influenced by the personal essays of James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, I loved the form, but pretty much stopped.

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  • Author Irene Cara
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    I didn't have to go to school, graduate and then go, What am I going to do? I knew from the beginning.

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  • Author John Calipari
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    I second the motion. His record is spotless. He graduates every kid. He doesn't look at other women. He doesn't smoke.

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  • Author Sandra Cisneros
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    I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate program, and you had to claim your genre.

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