Graduation Quotes

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)
While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure. View quote
Ruben Hinojosa
It seemed that the time would come evolutionarily when humans might have acquired enough knowledge of generalized principles to permit a graduation from class-two (entropically selfish) evolution into class-one (syntropically cooperative) evolution, thereafter making all the right moves for all the right reasons. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
No one has ever asked me to give a graduation speech. But in my years of working with aspiring entrepreneurs, many of them in college, I've gotten used to giving advice. View quote
Marc Randolph
I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. View quote
Olivia Wilde
My first class is biology. I can't find it and get my first demerit for wandering the hall. It is 8:50 in the morning. Only 699 days and 7 class periods until graduation. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out. View quote
Hamilton Jordan
After graduation, I took a job with Manufacturers Hanover Trust in software development. I don't think I was there more than a month. View quote
John Katzman
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does. View quote
Joseph Kanon
I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen. View quote
Junior Seau
I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm still touching up my remarks, but my challenge to the Class of 2010 will be to break through the deafening and too often negative echo chamber of the digital era and become critical and independent thinkers. (Lester Holt)
The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. View quote
Martha Reeves
A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick. View quote
Moira Kelly
All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. View quote
Patina Miller
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year. View quote
R. Lee Ermey
Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops. View quote
Sloane Crosley
I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation. View quote
Will McDonough
I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. View quote
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Divisionism is a complex system of harmony, an aesthetic rather than a technique. The point is only a means. To divide is to seek the power and harmony of color, through representing colored light by pure elements, and through employing the optical mixture of these pure elements, separated and proportioned according to the essential laws of contrast and graduation. View quote
Paul Signac
Darling, you look like a religious icon there [in her high school graduation picture]. View quote
Gloria Estefan
After four years of sitting through lectures, I have a feeling you're not in the mood for another one. What I have learned about graduation speeches is that they're too long and rarely remembered. So I'll keep this short. I just can't attest to how memorable it will be. I've also learned that it's important to refer to someone associated with the University. So I picked one, an SMU trustee, who by the way is not here, Reverend Mark Craig. Now, I asked Mark to deliver the sermon at the First United Methodist Church in Austin before my second inauguration as Governor of Texas. I still remember his Fort Worth twang as he talked about Moses. God called Moses to action, and Moses repeatedly found excuses not to act. 'Who am I that I should go to Pharoah, and bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt? Oh, my Lord, I pray, send some other person. I have sheep to tend. And the people won't believe me. I'm not a very good speaker'. (George W. Bush)
I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
It's a natural achievement, Conquering my homework With her image pounding in my brain. She's an inspiration For my graduation, And she helps to keep the classroom sane. View quote
Elton John
my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited. View quote
Kenneth Griffin
After graduation I was offered a post as Vice-Principal at the Jat High School but in that there was the name of a caste and I could not accept that. I have always been opposed to this social system since my childhood. View quote
Charan Singh