Graduation Quotations | Page 2

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

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

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.

I've always been short and stocky. So when I got into repertory theatre after graduation, I found myself doing character roles: because of my deep voice, shape and height, I was playing 40-year-old, 50-year-old roles at the age of 23.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

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

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.

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

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

Just after graduation in 1966, like many of my contemporaries, I applied for research training at the National Institutes of Health. Perhaps because his wife was a poet, Ira Pastan agreed to take me into his laboratory, despite my lack of scientific credentials.

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

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.

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.

I decided to move out of the apartment I was sharing with my best friend before graduation and move back home. My parents had recently separated, and I wanted to move back home with my mom and my siblings.

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.

I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

After graduation in June of 1984, I moved to Manhattan. My first stop was a psychiatrist, who in less than our first fifty-minute session again diagnosed me with depression.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

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

Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

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

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.

Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

Education is the best provision for old age.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Real leadership comes from the quiet nudging of an inner voice. It comes from realizing that the time has come to move beyond waiting to doing.

We graduated so many seniors that this is really a young team. We're going to take our lumps just because we're so young. We've got new pitching because we lost five pitchers. We lost all three catchers. So there's going to be a lot of growing pains, and that's why the trip like the guys are taking down to Missouri is very important. They're going to get a lot of games in and we can kind of sort things out a little bit to try to get ready for conference play down the road.

We're going to do everything in our power to have the graduation on the football field.