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The Graduation ceremony is a time for students to reflect upon their future, and the commencement speaker fills their eyes with dreams and sometimes, harsh reality. Over the years, commencement speakers and many known personalities have had a lot to say about Graduation day . Here are some of the all time favorite graduation quotes. |
A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.
~Robert Orben
You 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 Brokaw
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.
~Orrin Hatch
Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
~Louisa May Alcott
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
~Richard Halliburton
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
~B.F. Skinner
Your 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 Bolding
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
~Aristotle
The tassel's worth the hassle!
~Anonymous
The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
~Edward Koch
All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder.
~Anonymous
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.
~Erma Bombeck
At commencement you wear your square-shaped mortarboards. My hope is that from time to time you will let your minds be bold, and wear sombreros.
~Paul Freund
It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
~Brooks Atkinson
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
~Theodore Roosevelt
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
~Benjamin Franklin
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.
~Gary Trudeau
People will frighten you about a graduation.... They use words you don't hear often: "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.
~Bill Cosby
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
~Confucius
"'These are days you'll remember.' If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs."
~Christine Todd
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