#radu

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II. ↗

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) ↗

— Teacher David McCullough

#commencement #graduation #read #reading #you-are-not-special

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale College and Yale University with my master's and I didn't do it by missing school. ↗

— Angela Bassett

#college #did #education #glad #graduated

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best. ↗

— Douglass North

#california #mediocre #record #say #undergraduate

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 #checks #children #class #college

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. ↗

— Al Lewis

#graduate #had #harvard #many #more

My undergraduate degree is in business, so I'm trying to get a bit of a background before I go in. ↗

— Shannon Miller

#before #bit #business #degree #get

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#been #brought #close #conduct #ever

While I was in London it was completely upside-down. I got a whole new life and it was a challenge to keep in touch with my life in Ireland, but it was great fun. Now though, I've been back home since November and gradually all connections with my HP life have been fading. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#been #challenge #completely #connections #fading

I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years. ↗

— Albert Maltz

#drama school #graduated #i #school #two