Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the… — Charles Sturt Copy Share Image
Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
Donald Trump had a university. Well, the state attorney general decided that the Donald Trump University was an unlicensed sham. And I… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements.… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“we have each had a commencement, and each stumbled and tottered on the threshold, and had our teachers scorned, instead of aiding… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
I have come to the realization that history is not a fixed thing, a collection of precise dates, facts and events (even… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from… — Ezra Hall Gillett Copy Share Image
[A]s a commencement the Lord appeared unto Joseph Smith, both the Father and the Son, the Father pointing to the Son said,… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The way in which the persecution of Galileo has been remembered is a tribute to the quiet commencement of the most intimate… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
If God created the universe, there was a time when he commenced to create. Back of that commencement there must have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the panelists on CNN, after the Hillary Clinton commencement speech, literally started crying, "I can't believe, I can't believe the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." "Don't… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Now we allow that life begins with conception, because we contend that the soul also begins from conception; life taking its commencement… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
I was pretty sure I lacked the wisdom to be the commencement speaker, but after stewing over the idea for about 48… — Anders Holm Copy Share Image
The whole of that part of Southern Africa which is controlled by racial minorities is experiencing either consistent and regular guerilla activity… — Joe Slovo Copy Share Image
George W. Bush gave a commencement speech at Southern Methodist University this weekend. It was pretty inspirational. He said, 'As I like… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God. What then was the commencement of the whole… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings… — Pam Bondi Copy Share Image
“Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
It was a myth that's often perpetuated at commencement that holds that only hope and promise lie beyond the halls of academe.… — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in… — Robert James Graves Copy Share Image
Chemistry, unlike other sciences, sprang originally from delusions and superstitions, and was at its commencement exactly on a par with magic and… — Thomas Thomson Copy Share Image
“The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement,… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
What kind of a world are we going to leave the next generation? I, at least, want my children to look back… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
It is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ...… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
![“The beginning and the end of love are both marked by embarrassment when the two find themselves alone. [Fr., Le commencement et le declin de l'amour se font sentir par l'embarras ou l'on est de se trouver seuls.]” quote by Jean de la Bruyere](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2ca/jean-de-la-bruyere-575_amour_the-beginning-and-the-end-of-love-are-bo_2120948.png)
![“[A]s a commencement the Lord appeared unto Joseph Smith, both the Father and the Son, the Father pointing to the Son said, "this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, hear ye him" Here then, was a communication from the heavens made known unto man on the earth, and he at that time came into…” quote by John Taylor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/aaa/john-taylor-11046_beloved_a-s-a-commencement-the-lord-appeared-unt_2483660.png)
![“Take for example the commencement address he [James Garfield] delivered at his alma mater Hiram College in the summer of 1880. ... The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word 'dude'.” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/966/sarah-vowell-2016_alma-mater_take-for-example-the-commencement-addres_2595051.jpg)