GRADUATION

Famous Quotes

Quote: 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 Author: Robert Orben

Quote: Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these Author: Susan B. Anthony

Quote: The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse Author: Ed Koch

Quote: All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder. Author: Anonymous

Quote: The young graduate is discovering that among the necessaries of life, the most important is living Author: Anonymous

Quote: Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that , you'll make a difference. Author: Arie Pencovici

Quote: I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today. Author: George Foreman

Quote: Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Author: Washington Irving

Quote: It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts Author: Millard Fuller

Quote: From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus. - Louise Nevelson US sculptor and painter Author: Louise Nevelson

Quote: The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . . - Racial Integrity 1913 Author: Arthur Schomburg

Quote: 50% of the high school graduates in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class. Author: Anonymous

Quote: The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. Author: Doug Larson

Quote: It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our rmaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days. Author: Isabel Waxman

Quote: ...Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also Optional. Author: Bob Bickford

Quote: A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months.' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them.' Author: Red Skelton

Quote: Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! Author: Louisa May Alcott

Quote: A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. Author: Archibald Cox

Quote: At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry. Author: Gloria Steinem

Quote: The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill. Author: Ted Morgan

Quote: Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. Author: Richard Halliburton

Quote: There is a good reason they call these ceremonies commencement exercises. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning Author: Orrin Hatch

Quote: At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros. Author: Paul Freund

Quote: Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money. Author: Gary Bolding

Quote: If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. - Time 23 June 1961 Author: Robert Goheen

Quote: The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. Author: Anonymous

Quote: You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world. Author: Tom Brokaw

Quote: It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. Author: Brooks Atkinson

Quote: A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. Author: Theodore Roosevelt

Quote: The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving. Author: Russell Green

Quote: 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. Author: Garry Trudeau

Quote: Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues. Author: Anonymous

Quote: There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself! Author: Anonymous

Quote: Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. Author: David Lloyd George

Quote: If I made you laugh, your welcome. If I made you cry, im sorry. If I changed your life, chances are you've done the same Author: anonymous person

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