Graduation Quotes · Page 18

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

— David Foster Wallace

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do…

— Jerry Moran

I doubt where to go after graduation, but I'm sure as hell I wouldn't be what society predicts me to be-- I'd…

— Mega

That feeling you get when you're walking on stage in front of hundreds of people and receiving your diploma ^_^ I DID IT

— Me ^_^

I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.

— Maya Lin

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

— George Bernard Shaw

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

— Ellen DeGeneres

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once…

— Gloria Steinem

My graduation was an amazing moment for my family, my community. In my early childhood, we lived on a subsidized income, with…

— Lecrae

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

“The best university in the world is neither Oxford nor Harvard. The best university is "youniversity". YOU got the lecture halls of…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I studied at Cathedral School, where a lot of kids go abroad after Class XII. But I was clear that I wanted…

— Kiara Advani

You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people…

— Stephen Colbert

Oh my God, the graduate shows in London are so important! I still remember going to see John Galliano's graduate collection -…

— Mario Testino

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do.…

— Christine Gregoire

“Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to…

— Nick Kroll

“Grudem reflected on this calling in an interview: “I attended Park Street Church and sat under Ockenga’s teaching from the late fall…

— Owen Strachan

It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you…

— Dalai Lama

An old joke has an Oxford professor meeting an American former graduate student and asking him what he's working on these days.…

— Christopher Hitchens

I became a member of the faculty at Northwestern University in 1965 but did not complete my thesis until two years later…

— Dale T. Mortensen

Working with Robert, Robert [Elswit] is a storyteller. He's not a cinematographer, he's a storyteller. And to me, that's the graduation I…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

John Shook's experience shows just how important problemsolving is at Toyota - it comes before any other job skill for the graduate…

— Martin Burns

We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did…

— Delilah

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used.

— Amy Poehler

The unfortunate, yet truly exciting thing about your life, is that there is no core curriculum. The entire place is an elective.

— Jon Stewart

My main graduate training was received at the University of Chicago from which I received the Ph.D. in 1938.

— George Stigler

Graduation is when your summers of unpaid internships finally earn you a full-time unpaid internship.

— Anonymous

After my graduation from Sydenham College with a degree in Commerce, I was spotted by late Sunil Dutt, my idol, to act…

— Vinod Khanna

Study hard; and you might grow up to be President. But let's face it: Even then, you'll never make as much money…

— George H. W. Bush

Many are the plans in a mans heart, but it is the Lords purpose that prevails. -Proverbs 19:21

— Bible

“You won’t be able to do this ten years from now—just leave everything behind and go.”

— Rachel Kapelke-Dale

There is no spark like the one ignited under the aspirations of a new graduate.

— Henny Youngman

I was a radio jockey after graduation. I was 22, the youngest RJ in Delhi at that time.

— Ayushmann Khurrana

Well, good luck to all of us graduating college this year. Hope we can find jobs.

— Anonymous

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

— Erma Bombeck

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

— Orrin Hatch

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

— Bobby Scott

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

— Meryl Streep

A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.

— Sheryl Sandberg