Graduation Quotations

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"Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors! "
-- Louisa May Alcott
"Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these."
-- Susan B. Anthony
"Education is the best provision for old age. "
-- Aristotle
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
-- Aristotle
"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
-- Brooks Atkinson
"A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep."
-- W.H. Auden
"Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."
-- Roger Babson
"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. "
-- Newton D. Baker
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
-- Milton Berle
"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know."
-- Derek Bethune, President, Harvard
"...Yes, the lectures are optional. Graduation is also Optional."
-- Bob Bickford
"Your families are extremely proud of you. You can't imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money."
-- Gary Bolding
"Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed."
-- Erma Bombeck
"You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world."
-- Tom Brokaw
"Education make a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive, easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."
-- Lord Brougham
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."
-- Les Brown
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-- Winston Churchill
"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
-- Confucius
"People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices."
-- Bill Cosby
"A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues."
-- Archibald Cox
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live live as you've always imagined."
-- Brittany Crawford
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo
"The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne."
-- Robertson Davies
"The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm."
-- Fred Dehner
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
-- Benjamin Disraeli
"The most important aspect of freedom of speech is freedom to learn. All education is a continuous dialogue ~ questions and answers that pursue every problem on the horizon. That is the essence of academic freedom. "
-- William O. Douglas
"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."
-- Wayne Dyer
"The function of the university is not simply to teach bread winning, or to furnish teachers for the public schools or to be a centre of polite society; it is, above all, to be the organ of that fine adjustment between life and the growing knowledge of life, an adjustment which forms the secret of civilization. "
-- W.E.B. Du Bois