Graduation Quotations - Top 35


  • "Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! "
    -- Louisa May Alcott

  • "Your schooling may be over, but remember that your education still continues."
    -- Anonymous

  • "The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money."
    -- Anonymous

  • "The young graduate is discovering that among the necessaries of life, the most important is living."
    -- Anonymous

  • "There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself!"
    -- Anonymous

  • "Sooner 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. Anthony

  • "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

  • "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

  • "People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."
    -- Bill Cosby

  • "A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."
    -- Archibald Cox

  • "The function of the university is not simply to teach bread winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. "
    -- W.E.B. Du Bois

  • "The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education. "
    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • "The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."
    -- Russell Green

  • "A college education is not a quantitative body of memorized knowledge salted away in a card file. It is a taste for knowledge, a taste for philosophy, if you will; a capacity to explore, to question to perceive relationships, between fields of knowledge and experience. "
    -- A. Whitney Griswold

  • "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."
    -- Sydney Harris

  • "There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning."
    -- Orrin Hatch

  • "Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
    -- Washington Irving

  • "The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse."
    -- Ed Koch

  • "The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."
    -- Doug Larson

  • "Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course~because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you. "
    -- Alice Drue Miller

  • "To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks."
    -- A. A. Milne

  • "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

  • "Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that , you'll make a difference."
    -- Arie Pencovici

  • "The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future. "
    -- Plato

  • "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 Purvis

  • "We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
    -- Shakespeare

  • "Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
    -- George Bernard Shaw

  • "A fellow told me he was going to hang-glider school. He said, 'I've been going for three months.' I said, 'How many successful jumps do you need to make before you graduate?' He said, 'All of them.'"
    -- Red Skeleton

  • "At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry."
    -- Gloria Steinem

  • "I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. "
    -- Henry David Thoreau

  • "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
    -- Henry David Thoreau

  • "'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, NJ governor

  • "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

  • "A milestone passed, new things begun, dreams as shining as the sun, a goal achieved, a victory won! That's Graduation!"
    -- Unknown

  • "It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days."
    -- Isabel Waxman

    Resource Box - © Danielle Hollister (2005) is the Publisher of BellaOnline Quotations Zine
    - A free newsletter for quote lovers featuring more than 10,000 quotations in dozens of categories like - love, friendship, children, inspiration, success, wisdom, family, life, and many more; plus freebies and links to related resources. All new subscribers get one free ad. Read it - http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art8364.asp


    MORE RESOURCES:

    Blackburn College University Centre boss resigns after suspension
    Lancashire Telegraph
    By Nafeesa Shan » Reporter Blackburn College said the dean of its University Centre, Helen Mathers, was no longer on its pay roll after tendering her resignation. Acting dean Christine Kenyon will fill the role while the posit-ion is advertised.

    and more »


    Area students make college, university honor rolls
    McPherson Sentinel
    By Anonymous Leigh Loving of McPherson, a freshman college of arts and sciences student at Creighton University, was named to the fall Dean's List for the 2011-2012 academic year. Emporia State University released the honor roll for the fall 2011 ...



    Applications to Blackburn College's University Centre rise to record levels
    Lancashire Telegraph
    Blackburn College's University Centre has revealed that its applications have soared by 10 per cent compared to 2011. Nationally, the University and Colleges Admissions Service, UCAS, has recorded a slump of 8.7 per cent, with 462507 people having ...



    Bayonne Historical Society accepting applications for scholarship award
    The Jersey Journal - NJ.com
    This scholarship is open to all accredited college/university bound registered high school seniors (male and female) attending Bayonne High School, Holy Family Academy, Marist High School, St. Peter's Preparatory School, St. Dominic Academy, ...

    and more »


    Seminar on traffic literacy of college students held
    Pakistan Daily Times
    LAHORE: Students were briefed about the use of helmets and importance of following traffic rules at a special seminar organised by FC College University (FCCU) on Wednesday in collaboration with the City Traffic Police. FCCU Director of Safety and ...



    City hires 2010 UWSP grad for new economic development specialist position
    Wausau Daily Herald
    College: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, graduated in 2010 with a degree in resource management with emphasis in land use management. Stevens Point officials are hoping a new position in the city's Community Development office can help bring ...

    and more »


    Fannin County Master Gardeners offer scholarship
    North Texas e-News
    Applicants must be a graduating senior from a Fannin County school, or be currently enrolled in an accredited college, university, technical school or institute, and must be pursuing a course of study related to horticulture.

    and more »


    Arizona lawmaker proposes new version of bill to allow guns on college ...
    The Republic
    PAUL DAVENPORT AP PHOENIX — An Arizona lawmaker is renewing his fight to allow students and professors to carry guns on higher education campuses, raising a controversial issue that resulted in a veto by Gov. Jan Brewer last year.

    and more »


    Union College

    Union hosts regional Science Bowl Saturday
    Union College
    Each team is mentored by representatives from a dozen institutions, including Union, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University at Albany, Fulton Montgomery Community College, University of Buffalo and Rochester Institute of Technology.



    College, university students marching 'National Day of Action'
    680 News
    TORONTO, Ont. - More than 1000 university and college students are marching from the University of Toronto to Queen's Park, taking party in the National Day of Action. They are protesting rising tuition fees amid soaring levels of post-secondary debt.

    and more »

    Google News

  • Acne - Advertising - Aerobics & Cardio - Affiliate Revenue - Alternative - Attraction - Auction - Audio Streaming - Aviation - Babies & Toddlers - Beauty - Blogging & RSS - Book Marketing - Book Reviews - Branding - Breast Cancer - Broadband Internet - Muscle Building - Careers & Employment - Coaching - Coffee - College & University - Cooking Tips - Copywriting - Crafts & Hobbies - Creativity - Credit - Cruising & Sailing - Currency Trading - Customer Service - Data Recovery - Dating - Debt Consolidation - Debt Relief - Depression - Diabetes - Divorce - Domain Names - E-books - Ecommerce - Elder Care - Email Marketing - Entrepreneurialism - Ethics - Exercise - Ezine Marketing - Ezine Publishing - Fashion & Style - Fishing - Fitness Equipment - Forums - Games - Goal Setting - Golf - Grief Loss - Hair Loss - Happiness - Hardware - Holidays - Home Improvement - Home Security - Humanities - Humor - Innovation - Inspirational - Insurance - Interior Decorating - Internet Marketing - Investing - Landscaping & Gardening - Language - Leadership - Leases & Leasing - Loans - Lung, Mesothelioma & Asbestos - Management - Marketing - Marriage & Wedding - Meditation - Mobile & Cell Phone - Mortgage & Refinancing - Motivation - Motorcycles - Music - Negotiation - Network Marketing - Networking - Nutrition - Organizing - Outdoors - Parenting - Personal Finance - Personal Tech - Pets - Philosophy - Photography - Poetry - Politics - Positive Attitude - PPC Advertising - Press Release - Pregnancy - Presentation - Psychology - Public Speaking - Real Estate - Recipes - Relationships - Sales - Sales Management - Sales & Teleselling - Sales Training - Satellite TV - Science - Security - SEO - Site Promotion - Small Business - Software - Spam Blocker - Spirituality - Stocks & Mutual Funds - Strategic Planning - Stress Management - Structured Settlements - Success - Supplements - Taxes - Team Building - Time Management - Top7-Or-10-Tips - Traffic Building - Vacation Rentals - Video Conferencing - Video Streaming - VOIP - Wealth Building - Web Design - Web Development - Web Hosting - Weight Loss - Wine & Spirits - Writing - Writing Articles - Yoga

    Top
    Main Home Email Category Home