My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises. — Stephanie Ruhle Copy Share Image
The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector. — Gautam Adani Copy Share Image
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith 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 first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969. — Hillary Clinton 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 a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. — Orrin Hatch Copy Share Image
The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging. — Pamela Druckerman 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“I look into the future and see my brother's face, impossibly middle-aged. His daughter has rejected all of his values, and stands… — David Sedaris 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
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
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
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
Commencement addresses are usually garbage. They're for colleges seeking publicity. — Greg Gutfeld 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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