Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.
Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.
You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.
When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!
I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.
I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.
I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.
Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.
I have actually five honorary degrees.
I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
