(123 quotes found)
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.”
Erma Bombeck
“I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.”
Carol Gilligan
“At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.”
Gloria Steinem
“Think about it. If you are single, after graduation there isn't one occasion where people celebrate you. ... Hallmark doesn't make a "congratulations, you didn't marry the wrong guy" card. And where's the flatware for going on vacation alone?”
Sarah Jessica Parker
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.”
Dr. Seuss
“I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.”
Peter De Vries
“American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.”
Camille Paglia
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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