Comedy Quote by Jimmy Fallon

President Bush delivered a commencement speech at a university in Wisconsin. A very inspirational speech. Apparently Bush told the students, 'You can do anything…

— Conan O'Brien

The whole point of a commencement speech is to say something encouraging.

— Pamela Druckerman

My favorite commencement addresses are the ones that get real and don't make too many promises.

— Stephanie Ruhle

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice." [ Stanford University commencement speech , 2005]”

— Steve Jobs

“I was sitting with the rest of my college graduating class listening to the commencement speaker prepare us for life after graduation, and he…

— Doug Lansky

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech:…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly…

— Garry Trudeau

I've been invited to speak at about 20 colleges. There's always this moment when I'm having dinner with the college president: 'Ernie, where'd you…

— Ernest Cline

There happen to be whole large parts of adult American life that nobody talks about in commencement speeches. One such part involves boredom, routine,…

— David Foster Wallace

One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults…

— Angela Duckworth

“Encouraging Robert E. Lee to take a job as college president, "You might be presenting to the world in such a position an example…

— William Nelson Pendleton

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

— John Kenneth Galbraith