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
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
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
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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
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
There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
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
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
“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
The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969. — Hillary Clinton 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
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
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
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
As an innovation... the establishment of Free Schools was the boldest ever promulgated, since the commencement of the Christian era... Time has… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny… — Katie Couric 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
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because… — Vincent Price Copy Share Image
People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
I did work well with Hillary Clinton when she was my colleague in the Senate, and I certainly don't bear her any… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
