Famous Quotes

"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it."

James Tobin on Graduation

More quotes about Graduation

• "It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."

  John F. Kennedy on Graduation

• "God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

  Elbert Hubbard on Graduation

• "A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success."

  Robert Orben on Graduation

• "Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated."

  Erma Bombeck on Graduation

• "Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

  T. S. Eliot on Graduation

More quotes by James Tobin

• "After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer."

• "My father also happened to be an intellectual, as learned, literate, informed, and curious as anyone I have known. Unobtrusively and casually, he was my wise and gentle teacher."