Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Moran

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

Carly Fiorina

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

Graduated licensing has been the only thing that has worked.

Irvine Welsh

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

Gloria Stuart

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

Gloria Steinem

I am terminally sentimental about graduations. They are more individual than weddings, more conscious than christenings, or bar mitzvahs or bat mitzvahs. They are almost as much a step into the unknown as funerals-though I assure you, there is life after graduation.

Mark Johnson

If I had to open up a new third grade tomorrow, I couldn't do it, ... I don't have the room.

Robert Warren

I'd give him a grade of C-plus or B-minus overall.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

He's meeting one-on-one with the coach, so he's still learning the defense. I'd rather have him graduate and miss practice than come out to some spring practices and not graduate.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

I don't live in L.A. I actually live in Atlanta, Georgia. After I graduated from Spelman, I just stayed and never left. And I love it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you

Ashleigh Brilliant

By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me

Daniel Hernandez

But you know what? They produced 15 Aggie graduates.

Joseph Addison

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

Life is to be lived through action not by dreaming.

Gaby Hoffmann

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

Ellen DeGeneres

Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost.

Ellen DeGeneres

The definition of success changes. Success is to live your life with integrity and not give in to peer pressure to be something you're not. Follow your passion, stay true to yourself, never follow someone else's path; unless you're in the woods and you're lost and you see a path, then by all means, you should follow that.

Ellen DeGeneres

The most important thing in your life is to live your life with integrity and to not give in to peer pressure to try to be something that you're not.

Ella Fitzgerald

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Orrin Hatch

Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Orrin Hatch

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

Mathew Staver

Students and invited speakers do not shed their constitutional rights when they step up to the graduation podium. Expressing faith in God does not disqualify a student from delivering a graduation message. Being designated as valedictorian or salutatorian is an honor, and students chosen for that honor should be free to share their gratitude to God with their fellow students and family members.

Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of the time the experts, the people who are supposed to be able to tell you what to do, will tell you that you can't do something even when you know you can. And a lot of the time it's your friends ... who tell you you can do it.

Ted Nelson

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

John Adams

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences...

Mick Jagger

You can't always get what you want.

Michael W. Smith

Friends are friends forever. If the Lord's the Lord of them, a friend will not say never 'cause the welcome will not end. Although it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know, a lifetime's not too long to live as friends.

Garry Trudeau

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.