Commencement Speech Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

• There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine, and… — David Foster Wallace
• President Obama and Mitt Romney both gave commencement speeches over the last few days. Obama was like, 'You can be whatever you want to be,'… — Jimmy Fallon
• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most… — Edward Gibbon
• The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. — John Kenneth Galbraith
• As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the… — Hillary Clinton
• And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. — Garry Trudeau

Who Wrote These Commencement Speech Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 Commencement Speech Quotes as follows:

• 2 Commencement Speech Quotes by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• 1 Commencement Speech Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith
• 1 Commencement Speech Quote by Hillary Clinton
• 1 Commencement Speech Quote by David Foster Wallace
• 1 Commencement Speech Quote by Jimmy Fallon
• 1 Commencement Speech Quote by Edward Gibbon
• 1 Commencement Speech Quote by Garry Trudeau