Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Patch Adams

Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams.

Parker Stevenson

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

Larry Page

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. I know that sounds completely nuts. But, since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. There are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name. They all travel as if they are pack dogs and stick to each other like glue. The best people want to work the big challenges.

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.