Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning. — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
People will frighten you about a graduation…They use words you don't hear often. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Early morning is the most privileged time as it oversees the commencement as well as end of the day. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and… — Paul A. Freund Copy Share Image
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost. — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting. — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
Axiome: la haine du bourgeois est le commencement de la vertu. Axiom: Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of wisdom. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. [Commencement Address at American… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The stunning part was that one time Neil McElroy the Secretary of Defense who was the father of one of our classmates… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
“innocence is ignorance; ignorance is illusion; and Commencement, while it certainly is a metaphor, is no illusion. Commencement's for the disillusioned, not… — John Barth Copy Share Image
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
At his Philadelphia alma mater, Temple University, Cosby gave commencement addresses and attended games. He served on the university's board of trustees… — Chaka Fattah Copy Share Image
Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to… — Mellody Hobson Copy Share Image
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
If this day means anything, it means that you are now in the contingent of the responsible. You must be kind, yes,… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what's the really worthwhile advice that a 21,… — David Corn Copy Share Image
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dont teach my boy poetry, an English mother recently wrote the Provost of Harrow. Dont teach my boy poetry; he is going… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“Most of us only find our own voice after sounding like a lot of other people” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you. — Robert F. Goheen Copy Share Image
“Commence,” was Monsieur Defarge’s not unreasonable reply, “at the commencement.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I hope this will find you...enjoying the commencement of a new year with every prospect that can make it a happy one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“Empires rose and fell, and still the speaker droned on in his cicada-like monotony...” — John Green Copy Share Image
A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life. — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
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