Graduation Quotes · Page 20

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

— Rachel Kapelke-Dale

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

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

— Gloria Steinem

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

— Jon Stewart

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

— Amy Poehler

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

“Flora hadn't signed my yearbook. When I got it back from the cheerleaders, I skimmed over the last few pages and saw…

— rainbowbrook

My roots are in music. But Eileen Ford saw my high school graduation picture, and next thing I knew I was on…

— Bebe Buell

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood…

— Ben Bernanke

You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know. You're going to advance in life by…

— Charlie Munger

You don't become a success when you get your diploma, you became a success when you decided to go to college when…

— John C. Maxwell

The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent…

— Milan Kundera

If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just…

— Bob Iger

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a…

— Maria Shriver

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

— Ellen DeGeneres

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

— Anonymous

I don't remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that's the case for many people.

— Stephanie Ruhle

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to…

— Mindy Kaling

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

— David Foster Wallace

School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.

— Clint Smith

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 ^_^

The key is not to worry about being successful, but to instead to work toward being significant - and the success will…

— Oprah Winfrey

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.

— Samuel Barnett

My diploma was in film and videography and I then went to a film academy in New York, where I trained in…

— Ranvir Shorey

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

— Amelia Earhart

With a successful graduation, comes bigger challenges and obstacles in life. Tackle them out for your glory with the same zeal and…

— Anonymous

It takes a while. It's gonna take you a while. It's normal to take a while. You just have to fight your…

— Ira Glass

My father wanted the high school diploma on the wall, so I got that and then started hanging out in New York…

— Marky Ramone

Congratulations to you. Just remember, your studies might be over. But, the process of learning will never end. Happy Graduation to you.

— Anonymous

For many, graduation marks the end of formal student life - the end of long spring breaks and of thinking that a…

— Alexa Von Tobel

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

— Mike O'Malley

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

— Henny Youngman

All of my contemporaries in L.A. are all graduates of either Yale, Julliard, Trinity. The best of the bunch come from that.

— Tony Todd

I was a graduate assistant at Colorado State, and I think we got $550 a month.

— Lane Kiffin

When I came to Chennai from Coimbatore after my graduation, looking for acting chances, it was for dubbing that I was first…

— Nizhalgal Ravi

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

— Martha Reeves