Quotes on Graduation
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
-- Richard HalliburtonLife is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
-- Louisa May AlcottSooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these
-- Susan B. AnthonyThe advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell GreenThe elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had nibbled at dozens of canapés of knowledge and never had their fill."
-- Ted MorganThe fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match,
each one of you is a fuse
-- Ed KochThe modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's lips, the subject has been forgotten. . .
- Racial Integrity 1913
-- Arthur SchomburgThe purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.
-- UnknownThe trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
-- Doug LarsonThe whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
The young graduate is discovering that among the necessaries of life, the most important is living
-- Sydney Harris
-- UnknownThere is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning
-- Orrin HatchThere is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself!
-- UnknownTo the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
-- A. A. MilneWhenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.
-- William Lyon PhelpsYou are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
-- Tom BrokawYour families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.
-- Gary BoldingYour schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues.
-- Unknown