Stacey Abrams Quotes

I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should stay in school and not wait until you're old to get it.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

I crushed high school. I was a huge dork.

I didn't even go to graduation.

I guess you could say I was kind of a nerd in high school, so I was in the upper division math courses - I embrace my inner nerd.

I am a 10th class pass in Hindi. From 7th grade to 12th grade, I was in Delhi; before that, I was abroad. I came in not knowing a word of Hindi in 7th grade and learned Hindi and passed the exam in 10th. I think I was north of 50 percent, so I feel very proud of that accomplishment.

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, 'cause I'm very smart.

My parents did a great job raising me and my two sisters. We all graduated from high school and we all graduated from college. So, to be a good representative of my family is probably my greatest accomplishment thus far.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

My brother's got two degrees. He got one for me.

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

I finished my high school. I think an educate is very, very important.

I barely got out of high school, and I look back at my life often and go, 'Wow, this was awesome!'

I got into medical school at the University of California in San Francisco and did well. A lot of smart kids in medical school, and believe me, I wasn't not nearly the smartest one, but I was the most focused and the happiest kid in medical school. In 1979, I graduated as the valedictorian and was honored with the Gold Cane Award.

I enjoyed school, I was a bit of a square. I did very well in exams. I was quite lucky I was academic.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.