Commencement Speech Quotes
8 quotes by 7 authors
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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
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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
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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
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The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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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
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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
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And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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: