It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.] — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
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
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards.My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and… — Paul A. Freund Copy Share Image
Early morning is the most privileged time as it oversees the commencement as well as end of the day. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
People will frighten you about a graduation…They use words you don't hear often. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its… — Ruth Westheimer 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
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 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
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 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
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
“If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest,… — Stephen King 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
Death is not "an eternal sleep!" Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature… — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with… — Jane Austen 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
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
The question I have is out of all these commencement speeches that are happening, what's the really worthwhile advice that a 21,… — David Corn 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
Harry taught me that death isn't the end, it's the beginning. — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
I’ve found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image