So when I got out of the military, I went back to school in biology, and earned a biology degree at the University of Texas, and then did some graduate work in it.
Elizabeth Moon

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.
Frank Woolley

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
Cindy Crawford

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.
Mary Leakey

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
Lyman Abbott

The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter.
Mary Landrieu

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.
Jeff Miller

There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more.
Joseph Barbera

There's a lot we can do to improve American's retirement security, but it's wrong to replace the guaranteed benefit that Americans have earned with a guaranteed benefit cut of forty percent or more.
Harry Reid

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation.
William Kingdon Clifford

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
Bette Davis

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was - by a taxpayer.
Donald Rumsfeld

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
Arthur Ashe

Walter, who had been in the lead all day, was the first to scramble up; a native Alaskan, he is the first human being to set foot upon the top of Alaska's great mountain, and he had well earned the lifelong distinction.
Hudson Stuck

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.
Roger McGuinn

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
Jack Nicholson

When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.
Will Rogers