Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Gabrielle Giffords

Be bold, be courageous, be your best.

Jimmy Iovine

That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner's permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don't have to be smarter than the next person, all you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's not what the world holds for you. It's what you bring to it.

John Green

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

Lisa Fernandez

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

Leo Tolstoy

Act as if you are, and you will become such.

Larry Lucchino

Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap, but if you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

Lewis Black

Pursue whatever it is that you want to do with your life. It is the only secret to happiness that I know except for maybe true love, that and maybe having the amazing health insurance plan that our congressmen have.

Joseph Story

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

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.

Louis C. K.

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.