Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Farrelly

Don't ever rob a bank. Enjoy life. Have fun. Choose to be happy now; don't wait until you're 'successful,' because honestly, I was as happy when we were unemployed and scrounging around for a buck.

Peter Gallagher

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Peter Jurasik

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

Plato

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Jodie Foster

There is nothing more beautiful than finding your course as you believe you bob aimlessly in the current. And wouldn't you know that your path was there all along, waiting for you to knock, waiting for you to become. This path does not belong to your parents, your teachers, your leaders, or your lovers. Your path is your character defining itself more and more every day.

Julie Andrews

Use your knowledge, and your heart, to stand up for those who can't stand, speak for those who can't speak, be a beacon of light for those whose lives have become dark.

Katherine Dunham

I have actually five honorary degrees.

John Keegan

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Junior Seau

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

Maria Shriver

Pausing allows you to take a beat to take a breath in your life. As everybody else is rushing around like a lunatic out there, I dare you to do the opposite.

Rachel Maddow

After we graduate tonight, we no longer have to let society happen to us. We get to create our own.

R. Lee Ermey

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

John Green

There are many more jobs out there than you have ever heard of. Your dream job might not yet exist. If you had told 'College Me' that I would become a professional YouTuber, I would've been like, "That is not a word, and it never should be."

John Green

Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.

John Green

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower!

Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Natasha Bedingfield

The pen is in your hands, the rest is still unwritten.

Oscar Wilde

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

Louis L'Amour

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

Marian Wright Edelman

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Mark Victor Hansen

Put your future in good hands. Your own.

Mark Kennedy

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

Oprah Winfrey

And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Oprah Winfrey

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.

Olivia Newton-John

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Margaret Atwood

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Margaret Cho

Grow up and let anyone try to content with the adult you.

Oscar Wilde

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Patina Miller

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.