A Collection Of Graduation Quotes And Sayings

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A Collection Of Graduation Quotes And Sayings


“College isn’t the place to go for ideas.”
– Helen Keller

“This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!”
– Henny Youngman

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Even though I didn’t get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
– Herb Ritts

“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.”
– Irvine Welsh

“It is indeed ironic that we spend our school days yearning to graduate and our remaining days waxing nostalgic about our school days.”
– Isabel Waxman

“It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I’d become an actor.”
– James D’arcy

“I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.”
– James Green Somerville

“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.”
– James Stewart

“Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.”
– James Tobin

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

“I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.”
– Jeff Foxworthy

“My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.”
– Jillian Bach

“I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.”
– Jim Clyburn

“My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.”
– Jim Evans

“I didn’t get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.”
– Jim Jarmusch

“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.’”
– Jimmy Carter

“Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.”
– Joe Baca

“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.”
– John F. Kennedy

“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.”
– John Keegan

“You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.”
– John Updike

“Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be… well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I’ve known for years are all in the industry together.”
– Jon Secada

“I have actually five honorary degrees.”
– Katherine Dunham

“I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They’re concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we’ve had and our grandparents have had.”
– Ken Buck

“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.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.”
– Kenneth G. Wilson

“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.”
– Laurie Anderson

“It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.”
– Leigh Steinberg

“Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!”
– Louisa May Alcott

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